F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction: “An Almost Theatrical Innocence”

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s I want to thank my friend and colleague Professor Howard Egeth of the Psychology Department at the Johns Hopkins University for originally suggesting to me during lunch one day at the Hopkins Club that, given my interest in the social theatricality of interpersonal relationships in Fitzgerald’s fiction, my discussion of these might well benefit from taking a look at Erving Goffman ’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. I also want to express my appreciation to Professors Jackson R. Bryer, Ruth Prigozy, Scott Donaldson, and James L. West, whose work on Fitzgerald over the years has set the standard of scholarship and criticism at a high level and kept it there. I also wish to thank the editor of the Southwest Review, where chapter 1 of the present book originally appeared as an essay entitled “Compensating Visions : The Great Gatsby,” and the editor of Raritan, where chapter 2 originally appeared as an essay entitled “Is Fitzgerald a Southern Writer?,” for permission to use them here. This page intentionally left blank F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction This page intentionally left blank ...