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... of matter-of-factness and nostalgia with which a Georgia belle in 1870 might have remembered a ball in her family s pre-Civil War mansion. And, as Stahr escorts from a dance Kathleen Moore, the woman who is soon to become his lover, he comments on how John Barrymore and Pola Negri used to live in nearby...

... s mature achievement is one way of estimating the nature of that changing perspective. Fitzgerald presents the tragedies of his major novels retro­ spectively: the irrevocable fate that awaits Gatsby and Daisy, Dick and Nicole, Stahr and Kathleen, is grounded in experiences that Associate professor...

..., and resourcefulness that in conventional fiction won for the genteel romantic hero both the for­ tune and the upper class girl became the means whereby the Fitzgerald hero from Amory Blaine to Monroe Stahr could embark upon a career of unconventional, individualistic self-creation. Mr. Sklar impressively shows...

... Amory Blaine to Monroe Stahr could embark upon a career of unconventional, individualistic self-creation. Mr. Sklar impressively shows the evolution of Fitzgerald s work by analyzing much of the short fiction through which the novelist worked his way toward the themes of his novels. The analysis...

... protagonist and at the same time depicts the surrounding world with as much breadth and detail as Tender Is the Night. Jay Gatsby and Monroe Stahr may be rendered as vividly as Dick Diver but are viewed more externally. They play their parts, moreover, as do Amory Blaine and Anthony Patch, in far less...

... the frustration of their illusory hope for the realization of the great­ est of all human dreams presages a similar fate not only for Gatsby but also for the last of Fitzgerald s dreamers, Monroe Stahr, who as a poor boy in the Bronx felt the pull of California and thus became a part of the ageless human story...