The American Dream and Women in F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Authors
Quigley, Kenneth Howard
Issue Date
1969
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Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
The women in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction run of a kind:
wealthy, spoiled, unthinkingly selfish. Fitzgerald's portraits of
these beautiful one-dimensional 'flapper girls' are famous. Fitzgerald's
heroines are often thought to typlify the twentieth-century American
woman in literature, a bitch who corrupts and destroys.
I have attempted to show that Fitzgerald's women, rather than
being simply blasphemously portrayed to damn womanhood, are used for their
symbolic value in relation to his theme: the American Dream. Perosa
sums up Fitzgerald's use of women: where the sentimentality and
cheapness of the romance are most blatant, they are used structurally
to illuminate the final meaning, that is, the corruption of the
American Dream.
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ii, 38 p.
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