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Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise"

Date Submitted: 09/12/2002 09:42:18
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 5 pages (1471 words)
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…attracted to his victims ('victims' because Amory is, essentially, a parasite) because they are attractive like him; he then emulates their personalities, flaws included, according to his own whims of who or what he desires to be like. Amory spends a significant portion of his life flailing on 'this side of paradise.' Only when Amory loses his critical 'mirror,' Monsignor Darcy, and must discover his identity, can he reach his 'paradise.' 1454 words.

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