From Minnesota, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University and began expressing his spiritual despondency in his novels. His first novel, ''This Side of Paradise'' (1920), was a big success as he critiqued the upper class (of which he had been a part as a youth) after World War I. | From Minnesota, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University and began expressing his spiritual despondency in his novels. His first novel, ''This Side of Paradise'' (1920), was a big success as he critiqued the upper class (of which he had been a part as a youth) after World War I. |