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This is a 6 page paper discussing elements of self-involvement, greed, materialism, and immoral behavior in three novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Throughout the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, readers very much begin to understand the great deal of self-involvement, greed, materialism, and immoral behavior which was prevalent during the 1920s in America and was also a world in which Fitzgerald and his wife were very much involved. While “This Side of Paradise” was published when Fitzgerald was not yet successful, the central character of Amory Blaine comments on how he is sick of a system in which the rich always benefit yet at the same time he does not seem overly convicted but instead would find it easier if he was rich himself. Jay Gatsby in “The Great Gatsby” deceives the rich woman he pursues, Daisy, only to realize that regardless of how wealthy he became, by mainly illegal means, she would always be his superior materially. Similarly, in “Tender is the Night”, Dick Diver wants to become the best psychologist ever and while he marries the women he pursues, who is also his superior in wealth, he later abandons her mentally during her time in need and begins to look elsewhere for love.
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great deal of self-involvement, greed, materialism, and immoral behavior which was prevalent during the 1920s in America and was also a world in which Fitzgerald and his wife were very
much involved. While "This Side of Paradise" was published when Fitzgerald was not yet successful, the central character of Amory Blaine comments on how he is sick of a system
in which the rich always benefit yet at the same time he does not seem overly convicted but instead would find it easier if he was rich himself. Jay Gatsby
in "The Great Gatsby" deceives the rich woman he pursues, Daisy, only to realize that regardless of how wealthy he became, by mainly illegal means, she would always be his
superior materially. Similarly, in "Tender is the Night", Dick Diver wants to become the best psychologist ever and while he marries the women he pursues, who is also his superior
in wealth, he later abandons her mentally during her time in need and begins to look elsewhere for love. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
was well known for his novels which reflected the excesses of the "Jazz Age" in the 1920s. Fitzgerald himself came from a fairly wealthy family from St. Paul, Minnesota and
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceedingly wealthy from which material for many of his novels was taken
and was largely involved with people who were self-absorbed, greedy, materialistic and behaved somewhat immorally (Literature, 2002). In 1917, Fitzgerald was drafted into the army but never saw any active
service and instead spent most of his time writing his first novel "This Side of Paradise" which was published in 1920 to great success allowing him enough income to marry
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