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"Jonathan Schiff firmly roots his study in the methodology of psychobiography when he explores the contribution of sibling loss to Fitzgerald's literary career. The writer's childhood experiences among parents preoccupied with grief, Schiff claims, later found expression in his portrayals of social outsiders struggling for acceptance in a society consumed by nostalgia and resistant to change. Yet Ashes to Ashes attempts to explode the framework of a mere psychological case study: it revisits Fitzgeralds's alleged antifeminist stance by examining mourning patterns in his fiction as commentary on the construction of gender."

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