This Side Of Paradise Analysis

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Betty: Hello, everyone, and welcome to KDKA. Today we have the famous author This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the highly popular actress and nightclub host, Mary Louise Cecilia “Texas” Guinan. But first, let’s welcome Mr. Fitzgerald! It's swell having you on our program today.


F. Scott: It’s a pleasure to be here, Betty.


Betty: You wrote a breakout novel called This Side of Paradise, for those of you don’t know it investigates lives and the morality of post-World War I youth and follows Amory Blaine (a Princeton University student who dabbles in literature) what inspired you to write this novel?


F. Scott: In my college years I met this girl at Princeton and you could say I was a little more than infatuated with her. I would write to her daily and go out with her as much as she would let me (chuckle like …show more content…

F. Scott: I don’t know, we never talked again after college. But then I met my wife Zelda, and she put a ring on it (holds up ring finger).


Betty: How did you get into literature?


F. Scott: Well, when I was fifteen my parents sent me to Newman school, it was a prestigious Catholic prep school in New Jersey. While I was there, a man named Father Sigourney Fay who really noticed my knack for writing and encouraged me to pursue my dreams in literature. Then I continued on to Princeton and was involved with many school papers.


Betty: Was New Jersey your hometown then?


F. Scott: No, I moved around a lot when I was younger. I was born in Minnesota but spent the first decade of my life in Buffalo, New York. When my father was fired from his job at the time, we moved back to Minnesota. But as you know, I moved to New Jersey when I was fifteen. Now I’ve settled in Minnesota with my wife.


Betty: Well, it was a pleasure having you on the show today and I wish you many successes in the future.
F. Scott: Thank you for having me, I’ve had a jake

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