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The American situation of the 1930s is reflected very well in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited”, where the author tries to explain the situation of the people who had lost their (pertenencias) by the “Crash of the Stock Market” in 1929. This story is the story of a man called Charlie, who had lost all his riches and also his own daughter, Honoria. From his problem with alcoholism, he has lost many important things in his life, such his daughter and now he is disposed to do anything to recover himself and his life.
Although this story is set in Paris, this is not a story of Parisians but of Americans in Paris, where millions of them had moved to during the Crash of 1929; and Charlie is one of them. Charlie lives in Prague but he has come back to Paris to regain custody of his daughter from Helen, his sister-in-law. Honoria lives with her aunt and uncle because Charlie had been in a sanitarium trying to recover from alcoholism and her mother had died some years ago. But now Charlie has come back and wants her daughter with him again, although Helen has got a lot of doubts about if he is prepared or not to take care for the little Honoria.
What this essay intends to do is to analyze if has Charlie really changed by seeing his thoughts, actions or feelings. With this analysis, the reader could discover if he has suffered an evolution during the story or not.
In the first scene of the story, Charlie is in the Ritz bar and at that moment is when the reader could realize that Charlie was alcoholic in the past and at that moment he is still trying to solve his problem. During the story, he makes some mentions about at that moment he only takes one whisky per day. For instance, the reader will be able to see this idea when Charlie comes to the Peters’ house to see Honoria, and Lincoln, his brother-in-law, offered him a cocktail before dinner, what Charlie answers to: “ I take only one drink every afternoon, and I´ve had that” (pp. 89). Or...