On the Nomadic Writing and Criticism on Consumerist Alienation in This Side of Paradise
In his first novel This Side of Paradise,Fitzgerald doesn't present his consistent disillusionment towards the consumerist society manifested in his later works,on the contrary implicitly puts forward a feasible scheme to resist the alienation caused by the society of consumerism outside his main narrative line.From the perspective of Deleuze's nomadic philosophy,Amory's revolutionary attitude towards consumerism is initially revealed in his coastal travel away from urban areas,and is strengthened in the event of deterritorialization through Fitzgerald's Gothic narratives.Distinguished from a completely pessimistic strategy of escape,Fitzgerald shapes Amory as an"urban nomad"in the second half of the novel,pondering a kind of resistance attitude isolating from the coded space of consumerism from the perspective of subject ontology.
This Side of Paradiseconsumerist alienationnomadic philosophydeterritorializationgeneration
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