This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald

Notes

1. ^ a b Fitzgerald believed that World War I did not spawn the Jazz Age.[129] He rejected the claim that "the world war broke down the moral barriers of the younger generation", and he insisted that "except for leaving its touch of destruction here and there, I do not think the war left any real lasting effect."[129]
2. ^ Fitzgerald forever regretted not serving in combat during World War I, as detailed in his short story "I Didn't Get Over" (1936).[19]
3. ^ After leaving the U.S. Army, Fitzgerald settled in New York City amid the ongoing societal transformation of the Jazz Age.[20] Fitzgerald described the era as racing "along under its own power, served by great filling stations full of money".[21] In Fitzgerald's eyes, the era was a morally permissive time when Americans became disillusioned with prevailing social norms and obsessed with hedonism.[22]
4. ^ Fitzgerald stated that "advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."[23]
5. ^ a b During her youth, Zelda's wealthy Southern family employed half-a-dozen domestic servants, many of whom were African-American.[82] Consequently, as a white Southern belle raised in the Jim Crow South, she loathed menial labor or responsibilities of any kind.[83][84]
6. ^ Zelda's grandfather, Willis B. Machen, served in the Confederate Congress.[60][61] Her father's uncle was John Tyler Morgan, a Confederate general in the American Civil War and a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama.[62] According to biographer Nancy Milford, "if there was a Confederate establishment in the Deep South, Zelda Sayre came from the heart of it."[60]
7. ^ According to biographer Andrew Turnbull, "one day, drinking martinis in the upstairs lounge, [Fitzgerald] announced that he was going to jump out of the window. No one objected; on the contrary, it was pointed out that the windows were French and ideally suited for jumping, which seemed to cool his ardor."[71]

Citations

1. ^ a b Tate 1998, p. 252; Shinn 1920, p. 8A; Brooke 1918, p. 15.
2. ^ Mencken 1920, p. 140; Butcher 1920, p. 33; Buller 2005, p. 9.
3. ^ a b c Bruccoli 1981, p. 137.
4. ^ a b Fitzgerald 1945, p. 326.
5. ^ a b Buller 2005, p. 9.
6. ^ a b Fitzgerald 1945, p. 89: "My story price had gone from $30 to $1,000. That's a small price to what was paid later in the Boom, but what it sounded like to me couldn't be exaggerated."
7. ^ a b Bruccoli 1981, pp. 99–102, 127–28.
8. ^ a b c d Weaver 1922, p. 3: "But what the first book principally did was to introduce new material; it made this wild, keen, enthusiastic younger generation self-conscious; it encourage them to self-expression; to open revolt against the platitudes and polly-annalysis [sic] of precedent. In a literary way, Fitzgerald's influence is so great that it cannot be estimated."
9. ^ a b Wilson 1952, p. 142: "There were a lot of people writing before This Side of Paradise—but the Younger Generation never really became self-conscious till then nor did the public at large become conscious of it. My slogan is that I am the man who made America Younger-Generation-conscious [sic]."
10. ^ a b c Butcher 1925, p. 11; Coghlan 1925, p. 11; Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald 2002, p. 184.
11. ^ a b Gray 1946, p. 59: "They were the most conspicuous representatives of that 'lost generation,' fragments of which Gertrude Stein was forever stumbling upon in the byways of Paris."
12. ^ a b Fitzgerald 1945, p. 15: "The generation which been adolescent during the confusion of the War, brusquely shouldered my contemporaries out of the way and danced into the limelight. This was the generation whose girls dramatized themselves as flappers, the generation that corrupted its elders and eventually overreached itself less through lack of morals than through lack of taste."
13. ^ a b Fitzgerald 2004, pp. 6–7.
14. ^ a b Rascoe 1920, p. 11: "As a picture of contemporary life and as an indication of codes of conduct obtaining among the American young, the novel is revelatory and valuable. It is a comment upon the times. It shows definitely that whatever the teachings of our elders, the Victorian checks, taboos, and reticences [sic] are no longer in force among the flappers, the debutantes, and the collegians of the present [Jazz Age] generation."
15. ^ a b Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 330–331.
16. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 331–332.
17. ^ a b Fitzgerald 1945, p. 332.
18. ^ Fitzgerald 1920, p. 246.
19. ^ Tate 1998, p. 126.
20. ^ a b Turnbull 1962, pp. 92–93.
21. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 18: "In any case, the Jazz Age now raced along under its own power, served by great filling stations full of money".
22. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 15: The Jazz Age represented "a whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure".
23. ^ Fitzgerald 1966, p. 108.
24. ^ Fitzgerald 1920, p. 305.
25. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 126–127.
26. ^ Tate 1998, p. 22.
27. ^ Bernstein 2009, p. 40: "Fitzgerald called Hobart Amory Hare (Hobey) Baker 'an ideal worthy of everything in my enthusiastic imagination' and named the protagonist of his novel This Side of Paradise Amory in his honor".
28. ^ a b Smith 2003, p. E1; Tate 1998, p. 24.
29. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 125.
30. ^ Smith 2003, p. E1.
31. ^ Noden 2003.
32. ^ a b c Tate 1998, p. 40.
33. ^ Tate 1998, p. 82: "Unwilling to wait while Fitzgerald succeeded in the advertisement business and unwilling to live on his small salary, Zelda broke their engagement."
34. ^ Wagner-Martin 2004, p. 24; Bruccoli 1981, pp. 193, 441.
35. ^ a b c d Mizener 1951, p. 44.
36. ^ Tate 1998, p. 219; MacKie 1970, pp. 16–27.
37. ^ MacKie 1970, pp. 20: Scott "was always trying to see how far he could go in arousing your feelings, but it was always with words...This was his first exposure to southern girls, who in turn had been exposed to less timid southern boys. The southern boys I knew, despite their verbal lethargy, at least understood what it was all about, and were more aggressive and emotionally satisfying. In 1917, I'm afraid, Scott just wasn't a very lively male animal."
38. ^ MacKie 1970, p. 23.
39. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 39; Tate 1998, p. 53.
40. ^ Mizener 1951, p. 44: "Fitzgerald used three of Fay's letters and one of his poems in This Side of Paradise".
41. ^ Tate 1998, p. 186.
42. ^ Tate 1998, p. 3; Mizener 1972, p. 9; Mizener 1951, p. 6.
43. ^ a b Tate 1998, p. 21.
44. ^ a b Turnbull 1962, p. 7.
45. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 73.
46. ^ Smith 2003, p. E1: Fitzgerald later confided to his daughter that Ginevra King "was the first girl I ever loved" and that he "faithfully avoided seeing her" to "keep the illusion perfect".
47. ^ West 2005, p. 21.
48. ^ Smith 2003, p. E1; West 2005, p. 104.
49. ^ West 2005, p. 35.
50. ^ West 2005, p. 42.
51. ^ Mizener 1951, p. 70.
52. ^ a b Bruccoli 1981, p. 84: "Like all infantry lieutenants at the time, Fitzgerald expected to be killed in battle. He began writing a novel in training camp, hoping to leave evidence of his genius."
53. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 83–87.
54. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 86; Tate 1998, p. 251.
55. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 103.
56. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 251; Tate 1998, p. 82.
57. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 82.
58. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 88–89.
59. ^ Tate 1998, pp. 6, 32; Bruccoli 1981.
60. ^ a b Milford 1970, pp. 3–4.
61. ^ Donaldson 1983, p. 60.
62. ^ Davis 1924, pp. 45, 56, 59; Milford 1970, p. 5; Svrluga 2016.
63. ^ Wagner-Martin 2004, p. 24; Milford 1970, p. 3.
64. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 87–89.
65. ^ West 2005, pp. 65–66.
66. ^ West 2005, p. 73.
67. ^ Milford 1970, p. 39.
68. ^ Milford 1970, p. 42; Turnbull 1962, p. 92.
69. ^ Tate 1998, p. 82; Milford 1970, p. 52.
70. ^ Stern 1970, p. 7.
71. ^ a b Turnbull 1962, pp. 93–94.
72. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 98: "When he climbed out on a window ledge and threatened to jump, no one tried to stop him."
73. ^ a b c Bruccoli 1981, pp. 100–101.
74. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 101.
75. ^ Milford 1970, p. 55; West 2005, pp. 65, 74, 95.
76. ^ Brooke 1918, p. 15.
77. ^ a b c Tate 1998, p. 252.
78. ^ a b Berg 1978, pp. 15–19.
79. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 136–137.
80. ^ a b Mizener 1951, p. 87.
81. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 137: "The sales of This Side of Paradise did not make Fitzgerald rich."
82. ^ Wagner-Martin 2004, p. 24.
83. ^ Wagner-Martin 2004, p. 24; Bruccoli 1981, pp. 192, 440.
84. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 111: "Zelda was no housekeeper. Sketchy about ordering meals, she completely ignored the laundry".
85. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 482: Fitzgerald wrote in 1939, "You [Zelda] submitted at the moment of our marriage when your passion for me was at as low ebb as mine for you. ... I never wanted the Zelda I married. I didn't love you again till after you became pregnant."
86. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 102: "Victory was sweet, though not as sweet as it would have been six months earlier before Zelda had rejected him. Fitzgerald couldn't recapture the thrill of their first love".
87. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 441: In July 1938, Fitzgerald wrote to his daughter that, "I decided to marry your mother after all, even though I knew she was spoiled and meant no good to me. I was sorry immediately I had married her but, being patient in those days, made the best of it".
88. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 133: Describing his marriage to Zelda, Fitzgerald said that—aside from "long conversations" late at night—their relations lacked "a closeness" which they never "achieved in the workaday world of marriage."
89. ^ Turnbull 1962, p. 110.
90. ^ a b Mencken 1920, p. 140; Bruccoli 1981, p. 120.
91. ^ Bruccoli 1981, pp. 119–121; Mencken 1920, p. 140; Ford 1920, p. 52; Butcher 1920, p. 33.
92. ^ Rascoe 1920, p. 11.
93. ^ Rascoe 1920, p. 11; Bruccoli 1981, p. 120.
94. ^ Butcher 1920, p. 33.
95. ^ Mencken 1920.
96. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 28; Mencken 1925, p. 9; Ford 1920, p. 52.
97. ^ Ford 1920, p. 52.
98. ^ Stagg 1925, p. 9; Mencken 1925, p. 9.
99. ^ Mencken 1925, p. 9.
100. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 32.
101. ^ a b c Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 88–89.
102. ^ Campus Critic 1920, p. 2.
103. ^ Campus Critic 1920, p. 2; Kent 1920, p. 3.
104. ^ Kent 1920, p. 3.
105. ^ The Daily Princetonian 1922, p. 2; Bruccoli 1981, p. 128.
106. ^ a b c Bruccoli 1981, p. 128.
107. ^ Bruccoli 1981, p. 129.
108. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 32; Fitzgerald 2004, pp. 41, 83; Fitzgerald 1945, p. 319.
109. ^ Wilson 1952, pp. 28–29.
110. ^ Milford 1970, p. 67; Weaver 1922.
111. ^ Berg 1978, p. 14.
112. ^ Prigozy 2002, pp. 48–56.
113. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 335.
114. ^ Milford 1970, p. 67.
115. ^ McCardell 1926, p. 6; Mencken 1925, p. 9; Butcher 1925, p. 11; Van Allen 1934, p. 83.
116. ^ a b Van Allen 1934, p. 83.
117. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 329.
118. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 638.
119. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 29; Wilson 1952, p. 638.
120. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 28.
121. ^ Fitzgerald 1920, p. 278.
122. ^ Tanaka 2004, pp. 123–140.
123. ^ Tanaka 2004, p. 126.
124. ^ Tanaka 2004, p. 131.
125. ^ Tanaka 2004, p. 134.
126. ^ Riccardo 2012, pp. 26–57.
127. ^ a b Riccardo 2012, p. 36.
128. ^ Fitzgerald 1920, p. 304.
129. ^ a b Fitzgerald 2004, p. 7.
130. ^ Butcher 1925, p. 11: Fanny Butcher wrote in her Chicago Tribune column that Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise made him "the first person to turn the spotlight on the flapper in the backseat on a lonely road".
131. ^ Coghlan 1925, p. 11: Ralph Coghlan wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that "This Side of Paradise focused the thought of the whole nation on the problems of 'flappers and parlor snakes' which it had known before simply as its daughters and sons. Some of the old-lady magazines are still debating these problems with tiresome gravity".
132. ^ Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald 2002, p. 184: "...where young men in bear-cat roadsters are speeding to whatever Genevra [King] Mitchell's dominate the day".
133. ^ Stein 1933, p. 268: "Stein had been very much impressed by This Side of Paradise. She read it when it came out and before she knew any of the young american writers. She said of it that it was this book that really created for the public the new generation."
134. ^ Broun 1920, p. 14; Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 331–332.
135. ^ Broun 1920, p. 14.
136. ^ Wilson 1952, p. 144; Fitzgerald 1945, p. 16.
137. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, pp. 15 16.
138. ^ Fitzgerald 1945, p. 331.

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