From Griffith's Girls to Daddy's Girl: The Masks of Innocence in Tender Is the Night

Fitzgerald's “Riotous Mystery”:This Side of Paradiseas Musical Theater

“…In the years since Conrad Aiken observed in a review of The Great Gatsby and All the Sad Young Men that Fitzgerald's technique “appears to owe much to the influence of the cinema” (Bruccoli and Bryer 364), there has been a great deal of scholarship dedicated to the filmic quality of his novels, in part because he ended his career as a Hollywood screenwriter (see Dixon; North, Camera Works ; Phillips; and Prigozy, “Daddy's Girl”). But Fitzgerald was stage‐struck long before this, and he seems to have aspired to the artistry he found in the theater almost from the moment he began writing in earnest.…”