The Last Tycoon | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of The Last Tycoon.

The Last Tycoon | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of The Last Tycoon.
This section contains 1,080 words
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Often well educated in white schools and comfortable in white society, the first generation of Indian leaders to emerge on the national level included persons like Charles Eastman and Gertrude Bonnin. Yet despite their acceptance of assimilationist ideals, they also contributed a new ideal of their own: a Pan-Indian identity that emphasized the commonness of Indians of all tribes. They recognized things that Indians held in common, much more than previous tribal leaders had done. While they valued a "civilized" lifestyle, they also respected their native traditions enough to recognize the injustices of the federal colonial domination.

It is too much to ask that F. Scott Fitzgerald cap the successes of his youth and compensate for the failure of his last years with his greatest work. It would be too much like a second-rate Fitzgerald story.

—Kenneth Eble, in his F. Scott

Fitzgerald, 1963.

Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly of...

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