Dews, CarlosKlausner, Lewis SamuelDi Giacinto, Maxime Claire2024-11-152024-11-152012Di Giacinto, Maxime Claire. "The “Lover” and the “Beloved” : Jean-Paul Sartre’s Intersubjectivity in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and The Great Gatsby". BA Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2012.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14490/765Thesis (B.A. in English Literature, Minor in Political Science)--John Cabot University, Spring 2012.In Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre explores the bond between the "Self" and the "Other," concluding that the interaction between the “lover” and the "beloved" equates to a tyrant-slave relationship. This thesis applies Sartre’s philosophy to the interpersonal relationships in Carson McCullers’s The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. As both works portray love as a destructive force, Sartre’s philosophy allows one to understand that in the novels the failure of the “lover” and the “beloved” to establish a meaningful connection is a result of the conflicts within the Self.83 pagesenAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980Ballad of the sad café (McCullers Carson, 1917-1967)Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott)Thesis