F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Absolution" is a third person narrative that tells the story of 11-year-old Rudolph Miller's struggle to understand himself in the context of the Catholic Church. After using bad words and thinking impure thoughts, Rudolph goes to confession. Though he does not feel that guilty for what he has done, Rudolph knows that if he confesses, he has a better chance of avoiding his father's violence and God's wrath. However, when he lies in the confessional, Rudolph's guilt and shame double. He rushes to Father Schwartz's home a few days later to explain his story. What he does not know is that the priest is suffering from similar feelings of entrapment and despair. The short story explores themes including isolation and longing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the afternoon of December 21, 1940, suffering a fatal heart attack as he was finishing a chocolate bar--one of his placebos for the alcohol that had ravaged both his talent...
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The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, ...
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Although for the general reader F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fame rests primarily on one novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), his creative life, from youth to early death, found full expression in some 160 shor...
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Biography EssayF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the song...
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