F. Scott Fitzgerald at Work: The Making of "The Great Gatsby"

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“Absolution” (Fitzgerald), 48, 58, 69, 79 Adams, Brooks, 113 Adams, Henry, 112–13, 117, 119, 132n1 Adams, JamesTruslow, 112, 120 The Age of Innocence (Wharton), 75–77 Almayer’s Folly (Conrad), 102 American Eugenics Society, 83 American exceptionalism, 108 American Legion,37,53,62–63,127n47 The American Mercury, 48 American Protective League, 20, 29, 32, 123n14 An AmericanTragedy (Dreiser), 54 “Among theAsh Heaps and Millionaires” (title), 65 Aquinas,Thomas, 98 Arnold, Matthew, 118–19 Arrow Collar Man, 37 “Aussicht von Kant’s Fenster” [“AView from Kant’sWindow”] (drawing) (Lahrs), 103–105 Austen, Jane, 75 The Autobiography of Edward Gibbon, 110–13 Bauchle, GeorgeYoung, 32, 44–45, 46 The Beautiful and Damned (Fitzgerald), 47, 51, 68, 79, 92, 98, 100, 112, 121n1, 127n47, 132n1 Belmont,August, 121n3 Bender, Bert, 91 “Benediction” (Fitzgerald), 98 Berlin, Germany, 20, 26, 29, 31 Berman, Ronald, 75, 90, 130n9, 133n3 Bishop, John Peale, 7, 67, 70, 126n34 Black, Edwin, 82 A Book of Prefaces (Mencken), 49, 126n35 Borowski, Ludwig Ernst, 97 Boyd, Ernest, 47 Boyd,Thomas, 96 Brennan, Joseph, 32–33 Brezhnev, Leonid, 103 Brilla, Günter, 105 Brilla, Renate, 105 Broad Hollow Farm, OldWestbury, Long Island, 83–84, 86, 87 Brooks,VanWyck, 12, 99–100 Broun, Heywood, 126n34 Browning, Robert, 118 Index 150 index Bruccoli, Matthew J., 5, 8–9, 17, 43, 44, 68, 100, 127n39, 127n40, 131n6 Bryant,William Cullen, 116–18 Buck, Gene (Edward Eugene), 11 Campbell, Frank E., Inc. (funeral home), 39 Capitoline vision (Gibbon), 110 Castle,William E., 90 The Celt and theWorld (Leslie), 91 Century magazine, 114 Cerf, Bennet, 111 Chicago, 6, 21, 23, 42, 56, 59, 66, 69 Civilization in the United States (Stearns), 79, 120 Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, 82, 85, 91 Comen, Howard G., 123n17 composite characterization, 26, 69 Conklin, Edwin Grant, 90 Conrad, Joseph, 49, 51, 56, 102, 126n35 The Crime in theWhistler Room (Wilson), 9–14, 129n5, 131n4 “The Cruise of the Rolling Junk” (Fitzgerald ), 45–46 Cuba, 8, 22–25, 34, 44, 46, 59, 70 Daniel,Anne Margaret, 90 Danzig, Free City of, 24 Darwin, Charles, 91 Davenport, Charles, 82, 91, 94, 130n8 Decisive Battles:Their Influence Upon History and Civilisation (Fuller), 114 The Decline of theWest (Spengler), 49, 51, 98, 114,116, 126n36–37, 131n3, 132n2 “The Decline of Western Culture: Oswald Spengler’s‘Downfall of Western Civilization’ Explained” (Stewart), 114 The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma (Adams), 113 denial of parents, 41, 52, 72 Dewey, John, 99–100 “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” (Fitzgerald ), 51 Dilworth,Thomas, 124n24 Dos Passos, John, 112 “Dover Beach” (Arnold), 118–19 Dreiser,Theodore, 49–55, 126n35, 126n38, 127n43 Dresser, Paul, 127n43 Dubliners (Joyce), 49 Dwan,Allan, 69, 81 The Education of Henry Adams, 112 ennoblement, 40, 41, 70 The Epic of America (Adams), 120 equestrian culture of Long Island, 81, 85, 87–89, 93–94, 128n51 eugenics, 81–83, 85, 89–96 Eugenics Record Office, 82, 85, 91 F.ScottFitzgeraldandHisWorld(Mizener),17 F.Scott Fitzgerald in His OwnTime (Bruccoli , Bryer), 51, 96 The F.Scott Fitzgerald Review, 5 The Far Side of Paradise (Mizener), 9–10, 14, 16 Fay, Father Cyril SigourneyWebster, 112 Federal Bureau of Investigation, 29–30, 40, 61, 123n14 Fegley, Jonathan P., 26, 122n9 “Fitzgerald, Spenglerian” (Salpeter), 116 Fitzgerald, Zelda, 5, 8–9, 11, 12–13, 17, 18, 38, 41, 43, 45–48, 65, 68, 71, 125n32 Fleischman(n), Julius, 11, 121n2–3 Fleischman(n), Max, 10–15, 17–18, 26, 43, 69, 121n2–3 Flushing, NewYork, 24, 128n49 Ford, Richard, 14 Friedrich III, German Kaiser, 20 Fox, Madge, 11 Fuller, Edward M., 5, 9, 26, 65–66, 69, 122n9 Fuller, John Frederick Charles, 114 Furor Americanus, 29, 38 index 151 Geismar, Maxwell, 50 Genetics and Eugenics (Castle), 90 Gerard, JamesW., 29, 31, 124n25 Gerlach, Elizabeth (mother of Max Gerlach ), 21, 23, 27, 31, 122n10–11 Gerlach, Elena, 23 Gerlach, Ferdinand (father of Max Gerlach ), 20, 34, 37, 53, 64 Gerlach, Max (von), 4–73, 79, 122n9, 123n16 Gerlach, MaxV. See Gerlach, Max (von) Gerlach, Monsignore Rudolf von, 40 Germany, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 31, 32, 34, 39, 59, 61 German Kaiser. SeeWilhelm II Gibbon, Edward, 110–13, 117, 119 Gilman, Edward Robert, 70 Goddard, CharlesWilliam, 69, 81 Goddard, Henry H., 83, 91–92, 94, 95, 130n8 Goldstein, Judith S., 11, 122n4 Gould, Jay, 12, 81 Graham, Sheilah, 118, 130n2 Grant, Madison, 92 Great Neck, Long Island, 8, 11, 16, 41, 47, 69, 70, 81, 84...