F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited

F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited
In Paris, a group of North American intellectuals comes together and they are called the Lost Generation. Fitzgerald is one of them. Fitzgerald’s stories are strongly focused on autobiographical themes such as alcoholism, mental illness, money and waste, and unstable relationships. In addition, we can see a setting that describes the decadence, virtuosity, and the madness of an unforgettable age, the one that he called “Jazz Age.” His story called Babylon Revisited is a great example of it.
The story setting is located in Paris of the chaos decade of the twenties. Fitzgerald vividly portrays the lives of Americans who were going to have fun and waste their money. Fitzgerald introduces us to a story with an uncommon final, where the protagonist fails in his attempt despite the determined effort he makes to achieve his purpose. The protagonist of the story is called Charlie, an American who has wasted his money and part of his life in addictions and as a consequence lose his wife and his daughter. His daughter, Honoria, still a minor, goes into the custody of his aunt, Marion, sister of his late wife. Years later, when he recovers,

However, the story itself comes from several years ago. The Babylon Revisited is a great example to see how retrospection is solved using the technique of dialogues, where all the previous information is given little by little in the various conversations of the protagonist. Fitzgerald begins with an objective scene in which a man named Charlie converses with another who seems to be someone unimportant, but as the dialogue progresses, the atmosphere of a Paris pre-1929 and post-1929 is created. Finally, the title Babylon Revisited could be interpreted in a metaphorical sense that in the end makes us relate Paris to the sins of