The Ineffectiveness Throughout The Beautiful And Damned By...

The ineffectiveness throughout The Beautiful and Damned The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott. Fitzgerald surrounds the fair uprising and utter downfall of a doomed marriage in the 1920’s. Anthony Patch, a self inflicted author who is known for his grandfathers wealth falls madly in love with Gloria Gilbert, the beautiful, yet egotistical lady who is a lot more than what Anthony bargained for. With a marriage that is held together solely by the expected inheritance of his grandfathers money, the Patches begin living the luxurious life of a wealthy couple in the middle of New York City. When it is discovered that Anthony’s name was not put into his grandfathers will, the lives of the two aristocrats begins to deteriorate before their eyes.†¦show more content†¦Considering the fact that neither Anthony or Gloria experience any type of growth throughout the story, it goes to show that there is not a proper plot shown throughout the novel. Finally, The Beautiful an d Damned has no type of story structure. There are three parts to the book, but no introduction, middle, or ending. The novel is told in third person, but it is hard to make sense of the material due to the fact that the lives of the Patch’s is being told through both Anthony and Gloria’s eyes. This would explain why it is a deeply flawed novel that lacks common characteristics. In other words, The Beautiful and Damned fails to produce any of the compelling criteria that is needed to grab the readers attention, and is therefore an ineffective novel. The Beautiful and Damned is a depressing, stagnant read that will make the reader question whether or not they should just stop. It is hard to decipher if the theme of this piece is explaining the weakness of Gloria’s Love or the power of Anthony’s money - or both. Either way, both characters fail to teach the reader anything at all, only presenting a negative view on their boring life in the 1920’s. Fi tzgerald fails to introduce any form of protagonist that a reader could draw emotion too, because both the main characters are undesirably miserable. In other words, there is nothing the reader can relate to or connect to as