Mary Joe Tate Critical Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Literary Reference to His Life And Work (2007)

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.Episode 16 (Part 2) [Chapter 5]CRITICAL COMMENTARYDoctor Baer conducts Stahr s weekly examinationand reflects that Stahr, who has heart trouble, willFitzgerald s final outline chart for LOLT includessurely die soon.Kathleen calls Stahr; although hethis note: WRITTEN FOR TWO PEOPLE FORexpresses his outrage over her letter, he agrees toSF AT 17 AND FOR EW AT 45 IT MUSTpick her up later that night.While they ride inPLEASE THEM BOTH (p.xlvii). SF refers tohis limousine, she tells him that the man she hadhis daughter SCOTTIE FITZGERALD, and EW referslived with was a king and discusses her upcomingto Edmund Wilson, his PRINCETON classmate andmarriage to an American.He suggests that she goultimately the editor of the novel.The note indi-somewhere with him for the weekend, but she hesi-cates Fitzgerald s desire for his novel to bridge thetates.Stahr resists his inclination to persuade hercurrent young generation and his own.that their future lies together, resolving to wait untilOn October 31, 1939, Fitzgerald wrote to Scot-the next day to settle things.The next afternoon hetie: Look! I have begun to write something thatreceives a telegram from Kathleen announcing thatis maybe great.It may not make us a cent butshe was married at noon.it will pay expenses and it is the first labor of loveI ve undertaken since the first part of Infidelity.Episode 17 [Chapter 6].And I think when you read this book, whichStahr asks Cecelia to help him meet a Communistwill encompass the time when you knew me as anParty member; she arranges for Brimmer to meetadult, you will understand how intensively I knewStahr at her house, where Stahr complains aboutyour world not extensively, because I was so illCommunist interference with his writers.The threeand unable to get about (Life in Letters, p.419).go to dinner, where Stahr, miserable over the lossof Kathleen, gets drunk.When they return to theA Hollywood NovelBrady house, Stahr announces that he is going toEven in its unfinished state, LOLT is an excel-beat Brimmer up, but Brimmer knocks him down.lent Hollywood novel.It captures and expressesAfter Brimmer leaves, Stahr invites Cecelia to visitthe scope of the movies and the last-frontier qualityDouglas Fairbanks s (1883 1939) ranch with him.of the old Hollywood.Rather than condemningHollywood and the movies, rather than depictingThe Unwritten Episodesa crooked, vulgar, or cheap producer, FitzgeraldWhen he died, Fitzgerald had written only 17 of hisportrays a heroic producer a movie executive asprojected 30 episodes for the novel, and much of thecreative artist committed to raising the standards ofplot was undeveloped.His outline and working notesartistic taste in the industry.Perkins commented,indicate that he planned for Pat Brady to blackmail It has the same old magic that Scott got into a sen-Stahr, who resumes his affair with Kathleen after hermarriage, and for Stahr to retaliate with information tence, or a paragraph, or a phrase.It has a kind ofabout Brady.When Stahr learns that Brady is plan- wisdom in it, and nobody ever penetrated beneathning to have him murdered, he arranges for Brady s the surface of the movie world to any such degreemurder during his own absence from Hollywood.(to JOHN BIGGS, March 4, 1941; LOLT, p.lxxii).138 Love of the Last Tycoon, The: A WesternNarration and Point of View Influence of The Great GatsbyFitzgerald had not perfected his narrative plan for That Fitzgerald had GG in mind as he plannedthe novel when he died.Cecelia Brady, daughter of the narrative technique and structure for LOLTproducer Pat Brady, serves as the narrator.Fitzger- is evident from an early note for Episode 29: Theald explained to Littauer: By making Cecelia at the epilogue can model itself quite fairly on the lastmoment of her telling the story, an intelligent and part of Gatsby.We go back to Cecelia as a narratorobservant woman, I shall grant myself the privilege, and have her tell it with the emphasis on herselfas Conrad did, of letting her imagine the actions of so that what she reveals about what happened tothe characters.Thus, I hope to get the verisimili- her father, to the company, to Thalia [Kathleen]tude of a first person narrative, combined with a seems to be revealed as if she was now a little wearyGodlike knowledge of all events that happen to my of the story, and told all she knew about it and wascharacters (September 29, 1939; Life in Letters, p.returning to her own affairs (p.lxv).410).Cecelia relates much of the story, sometimes Fitzgerald told Collier s editor Kenneth Littauerstipulating her sources, but she was to be allowed that his new novel would be more like The Greatgreater flexibility than The Great Gatsby narrator Gatsby than any other of my books (September 29,Nick Carraway, who witnesses or cites a source for 1939; Life in Letters, p.412).On October 23, 1940,everything except Jay Gatsby s murder [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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