Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, is a well
organized and intricately detailed work which uses as its
basic metaphor the middle poem of the Divine Comedy by
Dante Al ighieri. Thematically, structurally, and
symbolically, Fitzgerald's novel parallels Dante's poem,
incorporating the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, the
Mirrors of Narcissus motif, Dante's idea of Amore, and the
symbolic figure of Beatrice. Critics have overlooked Dante
as a source for Fitzgerald's work and therefore have not
adequately explained the thematic concerns of this novel.
organized and intricately detailed work which uses as its
basic metaphor the middle poem of the Divine Comedy by
Dante Al ighieri. Thematically, structurally, and
symbolically, Fitzgerald's novel parallels Dante's poem,
incorporating the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, the
Mirrors of Narcissus motif, Dante's idea of Amore, and the
symbolic figure of Beatrice. Critics have overlooked Dante
as a source for Fitzgerald's work and therefore have not
adequately explained the thematic concerns of this novel.
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