In F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Baby Party," Edith Andros takes her daughter, Ede, to the Markey family's home for their son Billy's party. The afternoon passes peacefully, until Ede becomes jealous and pushes Billy. The toddlers' confrontation incites a dramatic and senseless argument between the mothers, followed by a brawl between the fathers. Throughout this third person narrative, the Andros and Markey couples struggle to balance their uninhibited emotions with their desire for social order. The story explores themes including performance and disruption.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the afternoon of December 21, 1940, suffering a fatal heart attack as he was finishing a chocolate bar--one of his placebos for the alcohol that had ravaged both his talent...
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The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic ...
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An air of transience pervades the biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and slips into their writing. This lack of permanence is a key to understanding their relationship with ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, ...
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Although for the general reader F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fame rests primarily on one novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), his creative life, from youth to early death, found full expression in some 160 shor...
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Biography EssayF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the song...
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