Charlie and Paris

In “Babylon Revisited” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a definite parallel between Charlie, the main character, and the city of Paris, which is the setting of the story. Charlie years earlier was a party animal, he and his wife would go out and paint the town almost every night. They would through money around like it was candy because their stocks were doing well and they did not have a care in the world. Then his wife became ill and she eventually died leaving behind her husband and daughter. Charlie also lost all of his money with the stock market crash, he went into a depression and wasted his life away with the help of alcohol. Later at the point when the story is beginning he is recovering, he has limited himself to one drink a day, found himself a stable job, and has come back to Paris to get his daughter.
Paris like Charlie went through a period of prosperity, parties were constantly going on in the city and people were everywhere. Then when the stock market crashed the people could no longer afford to waste money and the city died. When Charlie comes back he notices how empty the city is, it is slowly coming back to life but it is still empty. Charlie also sees this in his life, he is slowly coming back and recovering but he is still empty and needs his daughter to complete him.