contrast AND CONTRAST

Compare and Contrast

Compare and Contrast

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The foremost themes of Fitzgerald's books draw from from the resolution of stress when one idea (usually embodied in a character) triumphs over another. Amory Blaine, the protagonist of Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, is a questing champion equipped with youth, intelligence, and good looks. Anthony Patch in The Beautiful and Damned has a multimillionaire grandfather, a beautiful wife, and youth (Berman, 2006).

Daisy, for demonstration, so enchants Gatsby and the reader who recognises with him that only in retrospect (if at all) or through the detached observer, Nick, does it become ...