More on This Side of Paradise
From the text;
“You an inmate of this asylum?.”
Amory nodded.
“Awful barn for the rent we we pay.”
Amory had to agree that it was.
…
“Where’d you prep?”
“Andover — where did you?”
“St. Regis’s.”
A few thoughts.. Fitzgerald had a privileged upbringing and initially went to Princeton but may have partied too much, got into the military, and did not graduate. It is almost disturbing how many very successful people don’t graduate from college.
There is a certain danger to going to elite high schools and colleges. The general public can target you for it, if you become powerful. I am not powerful at all now, but I have classmates who are now and have been attacked by mainstream media;
i also think this is an interesting novel because it was apparently the most successful of his novels during his life. It seems like the slightly fictionalized social experiences of a young man. The Great Gatsby may have seemed too tragic at the time; and Tender is the Night too focused on mental illness.