%0 Journal Article
%T Amory¡¯s Disillusionment in This Side of Paradise
%A Thi Huong Giang Bui
%J Studies in Literature and Language
%D 2013
%I Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture
%R 10.3968/j.sll.1923156320130602.5245
%X As many critics observe, nobody has described the despair of the twentieth century better than F. Scott Fitzgerald. He came to prominence as a great American novelist in the 1920s, a period dominated by the postwar novel. In This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald successfully depicts the disillusionment of the protagonist, Amory Blaine, a young romantic egotist in a quest of forming a ¡°personage¡± in which he has to face various dilemmas and losses. Critics have adopted different approaches, such as feminist theory, gender studies and realism to analyze Amory¡¯s psychic dilemmas. This paper adopts a different approach using early theories of Freud in dealing with the protagonist¡¯s disillusionments concerning his personal life.
%K This Side of Paradise
%K disillusionment
%K fantasy
%K loss
%K mother-figure
%K substitute father-figure
%U http://cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/3409