Analysis Of Babylon Revisited

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"Babylon Revisited", it is a story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1930s. The protagonist is Charlie Wales, a handsome young man that, with a small fortune, spent all the money in Paris (1920). He became an alcoholic and he had a collapse in 1929 further the stock market. Since regaining the sobriety, he assumed the form of business man in Prague and he is ashamed of his past of desperation; "I spoiled this city for myself. I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another and the two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone." (F. Scott Fitzgerald, p.2166) He loves his daughter Honoria, "… a lovely little girl of nine who shrieked "Daddy!" and flew up, struggling like a fish, into his arms. She pulled his head
This is a story of Rosicky, a family oriented man, and how the humanity is inattentive and greedy. Rosicky is for a simple life, he lives in a farm, he work hard and he care about his family; he doesn't feel in comparison with his neighbor, "He rattled out of town and along the highway through a wonderfully rich stretch of country, the finest farms in the country". (W. Cather, p.1867) This character it is the "icon" of life before the modernism. The modernist way of life is about everything moving accelerated and people don't care anymore about values and morals. With this story, Cather takes as "back in the day", where the life was easier and happier when he says "While he sewed, he let his mind run back over his life. He had a good deal to remember, really; life in three countries." (W. Cather, p.1870) When Rosicky, after a life "complete and beautiful" dies, he return to the nature, he connected with his loved land. Rosicky remains in neighbors and family's life. They will pass the cemetery going to town and they will see "Rosicky's own cattle would be eating fodder as winter came on. Nothing could be more undeath - like this place; nothing could me more right than a man who had helped to do work of great cities and had always longed for the open country and had got it at last". (W. Cather,

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