The early heroes of F. Scott Fitzgerald were romantic idealists who had hopeful dreams and ambitions. They have strong spirits of success, heightened sensibility for the promise of life, and hopeful vision of life. However, as the heroes of his novels...
The early heroes of F. Scott Fitzgerald were romantic idealists who had hopeful dreams and ambitions. They have strong spirits of success, heightened sensibility for the promise of life, and hopeful vision of life. However, as the heroes of his novels are getting old, they are confronted with the loss of their youthful, romantic dream, and ambition which they had in their youth. During the late thirties and through mid-thirties his novels begin to reveal "a touch of disaster".together with "emotional bankruptcy" in his short stories such as The Rough Crossing, The Trip Abroad, Babylon Revisited, and Two Wrongs. It seems that as his wife, Zelda's mental condition worsens and his own reputation as a writer diminishes, Fitzgerald gradually suffers from "emotional bankruptcy." He actualizes this sombre vision in his short stories and Tender is the Night.