F. Scott Fitzgerald's modernism piece of work, "Babylon Revisited" about the main character, Charlie, was a work about the upper class and then upper middle class struggles of one man to regain custody of his daughter from his sister-in-law's highly protected guardianship.
The hardships Charlie emotionally endures to regain custody of Honoria are tremendous. Just when one thinks he will succeed in gaining custody of his little girl, a foreboding of defeat for the primary character is seen in the abrupt interrruption of Charlie's old friends. Lorraine and Duncan, drunk and insistant on resuming old relationships with Charlie, convince Marion, the child's present guardian, that Charlie is not ready to raise his child properly.
Surprisingly, after Mr. Peter's, Charlie's brother-in-law, tells Charlie that Marion has given him another six months to prove himself, Charlie does not go on a drinking binge as I thought he would. Charlie goes on enduring and living without his child for six more months, or will it be forever? The narrator vever completely ends the fable.
I like an ending like that. The narrator leaves it to my imangination as to the conclusion.
What amazes me about the work is the liberty the author took with the idea of a woman of that time period having the power to make a decision like that over the opinion of her husband.
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