THESIS FOR THE Ph.D.

DEGREE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Topic

: Multifarious Women in the Novels of Scott Fitzgerald

Research Scholar Supervisor

: Neha Singh : Dr. Ravindra Kumar Lecturer, Dept. of English, C.C.S. University, Meerut

Venue of Research

: Dept. of English, Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut 2007 2012

CHAPTER DIVISION

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Preface Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Works Cited Bibliography Introduction This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned The Great Gatsby Tender is The Night Conclusion

PREFACE Fitzgerald is an odd mixture of a poet, and a historian, of a feminist and a confession list, who produced the fiction of multifarious shades in American literature with rare distinction. Hence he makes a very specific writer of the age, quite significantly different from his great contemporaries like Hemingway Henry James, Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, and Dos Possas. If he excels someone in the credibility of historical details, he surpasses the other in feminist accountability. The temptation to read his novels as a form of vicarious autobiography is recommended by Fitzgerald himself in his letter to Zelda Sayers in which he wished his novel, The Beautiful and Damned to be a maturely written book because it was all true.

When he thrives on Poetic Style of writing, Fitzgerald comes very close to Romantic Poets like John Keats whose poems provided him with at least two titles of his novels one Beautiful and Damned from La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, and the other is Tender is The Night borrowed from Ode To Nightingale.

The present study, however, does not claim a comprehensive study of Fitzgerald as a novelist, either on this feature or that. It humbly targets the study of Fitzgeralds multifarious women, in his fiction, that belonged to the early decades of XX century when they were on the rise as a New Women, around the I World War period with United States swelling as world power, fabulously rich but morally dilapidated. In the world of Fitzgerald the chemistry of love does not work which reminds of a few lines from a poem of an unknown poet: Here no chemistry works, Separates physics. And all the calculations arithmetically done Lead to minus in love. However real, Fitzgeralds women also carry some romantic enigma about them which makes them more charming and interesting.

For my humble achievement I undeniably owe to my most respected guide Dr. Ravindra Kumar Singh and my teacher Prof. R.K.Gupta under whose guidance I have been able to produce this thesis on so interesting a topic from modern American Literature. At the same, I also cannot over look the great encouragement I have most timely received from my father and in-laws and more particularly from my husband Sri Amar Pal

Singh, in P.Cs. services, it is his dream, that is my success, and I dedicate my work, besides my teachers, to his love and care.

Neha Singh C/o Sri Saudhan Singh 81/1, Jagrati Bihar Garh Road, Meerut (Research Scholar-English) Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut