The two quotes are taken from the first part of "Babylon Revisited."
Both quotes deal with Fitzgerald's feelings about the dying years of an era that Fitzgerald loved and hated.
The Jazz Age brought Fitzgerald his fame.
It was also the period of his greatest excesses and personal/professional failures.
Analyze these two quotes and how Fitzgerald uses them as autobiographical to express his displeasure with this fabled age.
In addition, what does part one of the story foreshadow for the rest of the story?
"But it was nice while it lasted," Charlie said. "We were a sort of royalty, almost infallible, with a sort of magic around us. In the bar this afternoon"--he stumbled, seeing his mistake--"there wasn't a man I knew."
"At dinner he couldn't decide whether Honoria was most like him or her mother. Fortunate if she didn't combine the traits of both that had brought them to disaster. A great wave of protectiveness went over him. He thought he knew what to do for her. He believed in character; he wanted to jump back a whole generation and trust in character again as the eternally valuable element. Everything wore out."
