F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Following of a Grail'

Abstract

F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated traditional medieval and Arthurian motifs into his novels and short fiction. The wasteland and the grail quest are particularly prominent in Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise , and in The Great Gatsby . A contemporary Merlin is the main character in 'O Russet Witch!,' one of the fantasies in the Tales of the Jazz Age . Fitzgerald's love for medievalism and for the Arthurian legends also carried over into his personal life.