F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922) is a deftly woven meditation on time, identity, and societal norms, encapsulated within the framework of an inverted life trajectory. Originally published in Collier’s Magazine, the novella stands as one of Fitzgerald’s most inventive explorations of temporality, playing with the modernist preoccupation with the fluidity of time while … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) stands as one of the most incisive explorations of the American Dream and its discontents. Written during the Roaring Twenties—a decade of unprecedented economic prosperity and moral recklessness—the novel paints a hauntingly poetic portrait of wealth, longing, and disillusionment. Through its lyrical prose and structural precision, Fitzgerald crafts a narrative … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) occupies a curious space in his oeuvre—less structured than The Great Gatsby yet more ambitious in its thematic scope, it is a novel that attempts to dissect the existential crisis of a generation. It is a work that aches with self-awareness, mirroring the author’s own anxieties about love, ambition, and … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review: The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The New Renaissance Mindset 