The women in F. Scott Fitzgerald's first published piece This Side of Paradise, riddle the life of his main character, Amory Blaine. Despite her charm and sense of confidence, Amory fails, at least in the text's timeline, to maintain a stable relationship. What Amory ultimately reaches is the conclusion that his generation is lost and that all he knows is himself. This is a serious shift in philosophy from the beginning, where Amory believes he has the ability to master anything and anyone. Considering that Amory has at least five loves within this philosophical development, it seems likely that at least some of these lovers strongly influenced his final conclusions about himself and the world. So, the question becomes not just how, but which of these women left the strongest impression on Amory and her verdict on the world? Three of those women will be examined here. Before diving into the analysis of these women and their influence on Amory, it is important to understand where Amory ends up in order to retrace his steps and collect the clues that led him there. At the end of the text Amory proclaims quite dramatically, “I know myself…but that's all” (213). His sense of self is all he feels he can truly understand. The outside world is foreign to him and full of uncertainties. When Amory finally reflects on the plight of his own generation, he concludes that they are adrift, torn from the foundations that once held the culture securely. “A new generation…raised to find all the Gods dead, all the wars fought, all faith in man shaken…” (213). Now let's compare these perceptions with his original conceptions of the world. As in the "Code of the Young Egotist" section, where Amory imagines himself as... at the center of the card... of Amory's life, he is not, so to speak, in love with her but becomes attached to her. Simply because they can role play comfortably together. He concludes Amory's fragmentation of reality by having him recognize the fragmentation of thought when he accuses him of ignoring the subjective nature of the concept of "goodness." Amory has understood himself as "good" with the pieces of reality he possesses or, more likely, is willing to recognize. Therefore, when Amory cries, "I know myself... but that's all" (213), he finally realized the extent of the fragmentation of the world around him. Each woman led him down certain paths that further developed, and by that I mean demolished, his final conceptions of reality. He is no longer a shaping force in the world but a being subject to the whims of the infinite realities that make up the world.