"Point of View in This Side of Paradise" by Joseph Rochefort
 

Date of Award

11-27-1924

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

Abstract

The inconsistencies in the use of point of view in This Side of Paradise are caused by F. Scott Fitzgerald's artistic though apparently less-than-perfect revision in the third-person of The Romantic Egotist, the autobiographical first-person prose piece which was the source of this author's first novel. Fitzgerald's seeming lapses from the point of view of a central intelligence limited to Amory Blaine appear as authorial intrusions, first-person pronouns, drama, poetry, letters, and lists. These, shifts , from the dominant point of view, however, serve to help the reader understand the major theme of the work. This theme was expressed by Fitzgerald in his choice of a second rejected title, The Education of a Personage.

Comments

An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Marquette University Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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