Reception of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Work, This Side of...

Reception of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Bestseller, This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the first draft of his first novel in army training camps between the years 1917 and 1918. The working title was The Romantic Egoist. By February of 1918, Fitzgerald had submitted his first full draft of the novel to Charles Scribner’s Sons only to have it be rejected. In October of 1918, Fitzgerald submitted a revised version to Scribner’s and again it was rejected. Finally, in 1918 the third version of The Romantic Egoist re-titled This Side of Paradise was accepted and published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. This Side of Paradise made Fitzgerald a literary celebrity before his twenty-fourth birthday. The book sold out in a mere†¦show more content†¦Burton Rascoe wrote: â€Å"it is sincere, it is honest, it is intelligent, it is handled in an individual manner, it bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius.† The Chicago Evening American called the novel â€Å"human† and â€Å"complicated† and added that Fitzgerald was surely one writer to be watched in the future. While This Side of Paradise received wide critical acclaim from most critics, there were some who criticized it. The novel was first published with a series of mistakes including misspellings of names, book titles, political figures, movie stars, sports heroes and even martyrs. Over the next four months Fitzgerald embarrassingly attempted to render the mistakes by sending his editor Mathew Perkins several lists of corrections. Although some errors were corrected many remained in the novel . Almost all the reviewers of the book in 1920 noted the spelling and grammar mistakes, but most dismissed them in light of Fitzgerald’s apparent literary talent. One of those unwilling to dismiss the errors was Franklin P. Adams who wrote that the novel was â€Å"sloppy and cocky; impudent instead of confident; and verbose.† The New York Tribune and the Los Angeles Sunday Times added that there is â€Å"nothing solid andShow MoreRelatedEssay The Great Gatsby2606 Words   |  11 Pagesliterary archetypes, a family of fiction that espouses every facet of the expressive use of language (everything from Shakespeare’s plays to Dickens’ prose). As a participant in this tomb, The Great Gatsby has adopted a convenient persona in the world of twentieth century literature as â€Å"the great American novel,† a work that embodies the American thematic ideals of the self-made man, the great American character—Jay Gatsby. In its infancy, the novel received only a taste of the â€Å"epicRead More Hemingway and Fitzgerald Essay1423 Words   |  6 Pages Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the parties of one of the most famously infamous relationships in literary history met for the first time in late April 1925 at The Dingo Bar, a Paris hangout for the bohemian set. In his novel A Moveable Feast (published posthumously) Hemingway describes his first impressions of Fitzgerald: â€Å"The first time I ever met Scott Fitzgerald a very strange thing happened. Many strange things happened with Scott, but this one I was never able to forgetRead MoreThe Classics Are Those Books Essay1137 Words   |  5 Pagesclassics are those books which come to us bearing the aura of previous interpretations, and trailing behind them the traces they have left in the culture or cultures (or just in the languages and customs) through which they have passed. A classic is a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off. Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we findRead MoreThe Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald2473 Words   |  10 Pages F. Scott Fitzgerald Time is a meaningful concept in Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby. In which dreams and memories are very important. Believing in dreams, even when the time for that dream on earth to exist has long since passed. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writings closely mirror his own life for often explore the human struggle between hope and disillusionment. The Great Gatsby is filled with many characters who live hopeless, lonely lives, even though they have all the money one could want.Read MoreShort Summary of the Great Gatsby11203 Words   |  45 PagesBiography of F. Scott Fitzgerald About F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, the only son of an aristocratic father and a provincial, working-class mother. He was therefore the product of two divergent traditions: while his fathers family included the author of The Star-Spangled Banner (after whom Fitzgerald was named), his mothers family was, in Fitzgeralds own words, straight 1850 potato-famine Irish. As a result of this contrast, he was exceedingly