| | When he submitted it to Charles Scribner's Sons for the second time in 1920, it was published as ''This Side of Paradise'',<ref>http://www.bartleby.com/115/</ref> a critique of the upper class of which he had been a part as a youth after World War I. An overnight success, his first novel allowed his writings to emerge in high-quality, well-paying periodicals such as ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Scribner's Magazine''. | | When he submitted it to Charles Scribner's Sons for the second time in 1920, it was published as ''This Side of Paradise'',<ref>http://www.bartleby.com/115/</ref> a critique of the upper class of which he had been a part as a youth after World War I. An overnight success, his first novel allowed his writings to emerge in high-quality, well-paying periodicals such as ''The Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Scribner's Magazine''. |
| − | His new-found wealth enabled him to go back to Zelda, and a month after ''This Side of Paradise'' hit the stands they were married. Honeymooning in New York, they soon discovered a lavish lifestyle and wild partying. The limelight was a place they both loved and were worried about at the same time, and soon Fitzgerald had his second novel which reflected on that subject. In ''The Beautiful and the Damned'' (1922)<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9830/pg9830.html</ref> the central characters in that book have lived such a life, but "the book traces, at very great length, with much repetition of a not particularly profound subtle psychological analysis and numerous dissertations, the course of his (the main character Anthony Patch) mental, moral and physical disintegration."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/specials/fitzgerald-damned.html</ref> Such displays would surface in his private life; his abuse of alcohol put strains on his marriage and many friendships. | + | His new-found wealth enabled him to go back to Zelda, and a month after ''This Side of Paradise'' hit the stands they were married at [[St. Patrick's Cathedral]] in [[New York City]]. Honeymooning in New York, they soon discovered a lavish lifestyle and wild partying. The limelight was a place they both loved and were worried about at the same time, and soon Fitzgerald had his second novel which reflected on that subject. In ''The Beautiful and the Damned'' (1922)<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9830/pg9830.html</ref> the central characters in that book have lived such a life, but "the book traces, at very great length, with much repetition of a not particularly profound subtle psychological analysis and numerous dissertations, the course of his (the main character Anthony Patch) mental, moral and physical disintegration."<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/specials/fitzgerald-damned.html</ref> Such displays would surface in his private life; his abuse of alcohol put strains on his marriage and many friendships. |