A partly autobiographical novel, This Side of Paradise is the coming of age story of Amory Blaine, a man who was born to wealth but ultimately loses it all. He has the fortune to attend a prep school and later Princeton, but is disinterested in studying. Amory has love affairs, ends up fighting in World War I and is later engaged, but is left by his fiancee for a richer man. By the end, the carefree boy from the beginning has grown to understand the folly of his ways.
This Side of Paradise by F Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that tells the story of Amory Blaine from his youth to his twenties As a youth Amory travels through out the country with his high class and extravagant mother Beatrice After living a life like no other he leaves his mother and enrolls in St Regis prep school in the Northeast There Amory tries very hard to fit in but with his unusual childhood it is very hard He is very intelligent but an underachiever in his work From here Amory attends Pr