"There is only one lesson to be learned from

life... That there's no lesson to be learned from life."

-Gloria Patch (p. l34)

F. Scott Fitzgerald began his second novel in l920.

It was published when he was just twenty-five years

old in l922. It moves from prewar days through the

First World War into the twenties. Fitzgerald first

called it The Flight of the Rocket and later renamed

it The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy. Finally it became

In regards to the plot, in a technical way, The

Beautiful and Damned is orderly and easy to

understand. The material is divided into three books,

each with three chapters. Fitzgerald sticks to prose

narrative and dialogue for the most part, and he keeps

a consistent tone and point of view throughout the

novel. Fitzgerald tells a wonderful story and in this

novel, the story is quite easy to follow. In the

first book, the couple (Anthony and Gloria) meet and

fall in love. We are introduced to Adam Patch,

Anthony's philanthropist prohibitionist

she is a new, more dangerous type of the "debutante"

destroys all beauty and hope. He reminds us all that

He is unable to stay in love with Gloria. He is a man

character who will loose all and end up either dead or

collection of cheap bric-a -brac. " (p.71). Gloria

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