<Li> Clara Page--Amory's widowed cousin, whom he loves . But she doesn't love him back . </Li> <P> This Side of Paradise blends different styles of writing: it is, at times, a fictional narrative, at times free verse, and at times a narrative drama, interspersed with letters and poems from Amory . In fact, the novel's odd blend of styles was the result of Fitzgerald's cobbling his earlier attempt at a novel, "The Romantic Egotist", together with assorted short stories and poems that he had composed but never published . The occasional switch from third person to second person gives the hint that the story is semi-autobiographical . </P> <P> Many reviewers were enthusiastic . Burton Rascoe of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "it bears the impress, it seems to me, of genius . It is the only adequate study that we have had of the contemporary American in adolescence and young manhood ." H.L. Mencken wrote: This Side of Paradise was the "best American novel that I have seen of late ." </P> <P> One reader who was not entirely pleased, however, was John Grier Hibben, the President of Princeton University: "I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness". </P>

The other side of paradise f scott fitzgerald