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This 4 page report discusses 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel written in 1922. The writer's primary focus is on how this novel, like 'The Great Gatsby,' serves as an example of the American dream gone wrong. Bibliography lists only the book itself as a source.
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was not one of his most critically acclaimed works. In fact, both the critics of Fitzgeralds time and modern literary analysts see his depiction of an artists losing fight
with dissipation, as badly flawed. The average reader, however, generally finds it as intriguing as any modern "pulp fiction." It was a bestseller in its day and met the
acclaim that any would-be screen play or television mini-series would in the 1990s. Fundamentally, it remains to this day, as a devastating portrait of insatiable greed, ruthless ambition, and wasted
talent. Fitzgerald tells the story of two newlyweds, Anthony Patch of New York and Gloria Gilbert of Kansas City and
chronicles a dying marriage in a hedonistic society in which beauty is all too fleeting. They emerge as two young lovers who are attracted by their differences in the beginning
who are ultimately destroyed by their similarities (the lust for wealth) in the end. Anthony and Glorias life together portrays not only the richest but the lowest of society. The
reader watches and even becomes a part of the world in which all the characters lose their dreams and fall into a depraved, hollow existence that is, at its core,
based on alcohol. And yet, the story is both hilarious and heartbreaking. After all that modern readers have heard about Fitzgerald himself and his wife Zelda, it is extremely easy
to see parts of their personal story in the chronicle of Anthony and Gloria, a couple whose days of wine and roses also fade quickly toward a tragic end.
Something went wrong in the lives of Anthony Patch and Gloria Gilbert, just as it did with most of Fitzgeralds couples, including himself and Zelda.
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