Entry #5

Pgs. 104-112

In this chapter we finally find out what was in the bathroom that Mrs. McKisco saw. She saw Nicole Diver having a breakdown. An African-French who is with Mr. North kills another African-French in Rosemary's hotel room. She walks in to find him dead on her bed. She runs out of her room and into Dick's room. He observes the scene and acts quickly. He knows that there is no way this wouldn't look bad on her record so he decides to call the hotel manager and inform him of the death but to keep it a secret. Of course the manager agrees because a death in his hotel is bad for him and also, at the time the deaths of an African-French wasn't as important as that of a French or an American.

Some themes that carry into different books by Fitzgerald are his love for details, and eloquent narration. He is a very good physical writer. I think that some of the characters follow also. For example in This Side of Paradise Amory seems a lot like Fitzgerald himself just as Dick seems a lot like Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald told his story many times in his books, through them he told the world what he was going through, or what he had to deal with. I feel that This Side of Paradise tells more of Fitzgerald's earlier years, which would make sense because it was his first book.