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Essay Archive - Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
Amory Blaine's "Mirrors" in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel This Side of Paradise, Amory Blaine
searches for his identity by "mirroring" people he admires. However, these
"mirrors" actually block him from finding his true self. He falls in love with
women whose personalities intrigue him; he mimics the actions of men he looks up
to. Eleanor Savage and Burne Holiday serve as prime examples of this. Until
Amory loses his pivotal "mirror," Monsignor Darcy, he searches for his soul in
all the wrong places. When Monsignor Darcy dies, Amory has the spiritu....
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