Scottie Fitzgerald: The Stewardship of Literary Memory

The emphasis of this exhibition and its catalogue is on Scottie Fitzgerald as executrix of her parents\u27 literary properties and as reluctant literary historian. The heavily illustrated catalogue begins with an overview of Scottie\u27s life and her relationship to her parents and to their literary legacy, then the exhibited items are listed by topic: Childhood & Education, Scottie & F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scottie\u27s Writings on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scottie as Literary Executrix, Collaboration with Matthew J. Bruccoli, Scottie\u27s Other Writings, and Scottie and the Matthew J. Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The catalog ends with a bibliography, Scottie Fitzgerald\u27s Writings on her parents

Of Love, Of Money, Of Unquestionable Practicality: The Choices of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Early Heroines

Between 1920-1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald explored the choices of young, affluent women, particularly in regards to marriage. His fascination with this topic began with Rosalind in This Side of Paradise, and her practical yet immature decision. Through his early short stories, Fitzgerald explores different motives behind his heroines’ decisions, varying points-of-view, and the consequences of his heroines’ actions. Fitzgerald’s fascination with these characters culminates in The Great Gatsby with his most complex characters and situations

F Scott Fitzgerald: Wealth and the woman

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” These famous lines by F. Scott Fitzgerald, made more famous by Ernest Hemingway, succinctly compress Fitzgerald\u27s involved feelings about great wealth into one brief statement and served to identify one of Fitzgerald\u27s major themes. For Fitzgerald was fascinated by the wealthy throughout his life; they were the chief subjects of his fiction. He grew up in awe of the man of inherited wealth, and he dissipated his vitality trying to live according to the same pattern. In his early years he was completely dazzled by wealth, and even later, he had developed a mature judgment that could see through the glitter, he never lost the sense of an enchantment, a glamour, in great riches. To express the feelings he had about wealth required a symbol that in turn was bewitching, dazzling, and glamourous; and so, in his fiction, Fitzgerald chose to embody the sensations in a woman

F. Scott Fitzgerald : his materials and his methods

From the time I was first introduced to Fitzgerald\u27s writing through a reading of This Side of Paradise, when I was a freshman in college, his subject matter and technique as a novelist have interested me intensely. After reading the first novel, I was not satisfied until I had voraciously read his other novels. With each reading of another of his books, my interest increased. Later, when Mizener\u27s valuable biography appeared, I was introduced to Fitzgerald the man and have found his life as fascinating as his writings. However I felt that none of the books about Fitzgerald completely presented the carry-over of living material from his own experiences to his novels; nor were his techniques employed in novel writing fully examined

Nervousness in the works of F Scott Fitzgerald

This study examines how nervousness and the ideas that came to be associated with it manifest themselves in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, often influencing both the characters and themes in his fiction; Chapter one traces the development of what is referred to as a nervous discourse from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, revealing how the pre-Enlightenment sense of nervous, which signified strength, gradually gave way to a meaning which indicates agitation or timidity and implies a sense of weakness. In addition, this chapter demonstrates that nervousness, even within medical literature, became linked to a number of other cultural ideas, particularly modernity, social status, gender, and sensibility; Chapter two examines how the ideas connected with nervousness can be seen in Fitzgerald\u27s early work and This Side of Paradise, particularly in his treatment of nervous mothers, restless children, and enervation. Chapter three demonstrates that dissipation and hysteria became connected with nervous discourse, and that these ideas are contrasted with efficiency in The Beautiful and Damned and several of Fitzgerald\u27s other stories from this period. Chapter four discusses the nervous men who fall in love with nervous women in The Great Gatsby and other fiction Fitzgerald published from 1922 to 1927, which reveals that nervousness had a different significance for characters of different genders. Chapter five demonstrates how the theme of vitality which runs through the Basil and Josephine stories, Tender is the Night, and The Crack-Up essays is associated with the nervous system, and that Fitzgerald conceived of his artistic and emotional crisis in the 1930s as a type of nervous bankruptcy, while it also examines how the theme of degeneration emerges during this period of Fitzgerald\u27s career. And chapter six concludes the study by revealing that some of Fitzgerald\u27s ideas regarding nervousness began to change in the final years of his life, as can be seen in The Love of the Last Tycoon, and that after Fitzgerald\u27s death, the age of anxiety came to displace Fitzgerald\u27s nervous era

Contrasting Characters Gatsby and Tom In The Novel “The Great Gatsby”

How did F. Scott Fitzgerald create the contrast between Tom and Gatsby in the novel “The Great Gatsby”

The Succubus and the Suckers: the Soul-Siphoning Leeches in the Stories of Modernist Text.

This paper explores the various relationships found in John Steinbeck\u27s Of Mice and Men, Tennessee Williams\u27s A Streetcar Named Desire, Franz Kafka\u27s The Metamorphosis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald\u27s Tender is the Night. The exploration of each demonstrates the common theme of parasitic relations and the toll this dynamic takes on the persons involved

Under the Dome - October 1996

Contents: Gullah Traditions to be Celebrated.....p. 1 A Major Donation Announced.....p. 1 Double Vision: F. Scott Fitzgerald\u27s World of Realism and Imagination.....p. 2 Tarleton Blackwell: A Southern Artist, A Southern Gentleman.....p. 2 Happy Days Continues at McKissick.....p. 2 Tuesdays at McKissick.....p. 3 Just for Young People.....p. 3 A New Look.....p.

Location and Landscape in Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns. This chapter focuses less on the causes of an eastern dismissal of western literature and more on what is unique about western literature, including how it reflects the larger western experience. Sumner looks at the particular Americanisms evident in the letters of the American West, using two short stories to make his argument: H. L. Davis’s Open Winter and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited