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The Beautiful and Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about a man named of Anthony
Patch, a Harvard graduate residing in Manhattan. He is the grandson of self-millionaire Adam
Patch, whom is ill. Adam does not support Anthony, but Anthony is to inherit his grandfather’s
$65 million dollar estate. At twenty-four, Anthony falls in love and marries twenty year old
Gloria Gilbert from Kansas City, Missouri, whom is strikingly beautiful. Anthony and Gloria
have no desire or ambition to work. Instead, they live beyond their income, argue frequently,
and cash bonds every few months just to make ends meet. Anthony and Gloria also drink very
much, in fact, Adam, who is for prohibition, walks in on one of Anthony and Gloria’s alcoholic
binges and later disinherits Anthony from the will. Anthony contests and later wins, but is not
able to enjoy his fortune because he has a psychological breakdown.
