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Anthony Patch, the idle grandson of a puritanical multimillionaire, lives in New York in elegant leisure, waiting to inherit his grandfather's fortune. He…
Anthony Patch, the idle grandson of a puritanical multimillionaire, lives in New York in elegant leisure, waiting to inherit his grandfather's fortune. He marries the beautiful, restless Gloria Gilbert, and the young couple devote themselves to parties, drinking and spending, while their money, their looks and their love slowly drain away. When the old man disinherits Anthony, they sink into a bitter legal fight over the will.
Context and significance
F. Scott Fitzgerald published this second novel in 1922, and its portrait of a glamorous couple destroying themselves drew on his own marriage to Zelda. It is a darker study of the Jazz Age than his first book. Read This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.
About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was born in St Paul, Minnesota, left Princeton for the army and became famous at twenty-three with his first novel, This Side of Paradise. He married the brilliant Zelda Sayre, named the Jazz Age and lived its glamour in New York and on the French Riviera.
The Great Gatsby (1925), now considered one of the greatest American novels, sold poorly in his lifetime. Zelda's illness, debts and drink darkened his later years, and he died in Hollywood at forty-four, writing film scripts and believing himself a failure.