The Beautiful And Damned

It explores and portrays new york café society and the american eastern elite during the jazz age before and after the great war in the early 1920s.

The beautiful and damned. Gloria the daughter in a wealthy family has finally spent most of her father s money. The characters are at once vivid and on the verge of crumbling. It soars from theatrical beauty and then plummets to cold desolation to unfolding of horrific emotion. The beautiful and damned first published by scribner s in 1922 is f.

Scott fitzgerald s second novel. Twenty something trust fund kid anthony patch and his party girl wife gloria gilbert are disinherited by their wealthy benefactor grandfather and their lives spiral out of control in a blizzard of drugs sex and eventual violence. She marries tony whose as much of a reckless spendthrift as she is and they continue indulging themselves. With marie prevost kenneth harlan harry myers tully marshall.

Tony s wealthy grandfather adam patch dies but to their surprise he leaves tony nothing. The prose as ever is delicious decadent and evocative.