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brittrivera 's review for:
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Of all Fitzgerald's finished novels I liked this one the least purely because I found the characters very hard to care about. Anthony Patch is an entitled, do-nothing mope who cares about money only more than he cares about alcohol. I was kind of confused about how Gloria fell in love with him, but she is no better herself. She is vain and cares only for herself, her pleasures, and her beauty. So not the two most pleasant people. There was not a single character I cared for except for maybe Joseph Bloeckman/Black.
The interesting thing about this novel is that it is widely regarded to be based upon Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda. The amount of abuse, depression, alcoholism, both suffered makes anyone wonder how they remained together for so long. As much as I love him, it seems like F. Scott had some serious problems of his own.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."
"From the tenement window leaned rotund, moon-shaped mothers as constellations of this sordid heaven; women like dark, imperfect, jewels, women like vegetables, women like great bags of abominably dirty laundry."
The interesting thing about this novel is that it is widely regarded to be based upon Fitzgerald's relationship with Zelda. The amount of abuse, depression, alcoholism, both suffered makes anyone wonder how they remained together for so long. As much as I love him, it seems like F. Scott had some serious problems of his own.
"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."
"From the tenement window leaned rotund, moon-shaped mothers as constellations of this sordid heaven; women like dark, imperfect, jewels, women like vegetables, women like great bags of abominably dirty laundry."