Rushmore: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rosalind and Rosemary — both heartbreakers at their finest. Still, though their names are similar, they two couldn’t be any less alike: one a Fitzgerald-style debutant, the other a grade school teacher and widow. What is strikingly similar between these two works are their protagonists: Amory Blaine and Max Fischer, both boarding school transplants who are cynical though romantic, whip-smart fools. While Fischer is cocky about his future in Ivy League schools (“My top schools where I want to apply to are Oxford and the Sorbonne. My safety's Harvard.”), Amory actually attends Princeton … and is shipped overseas to fight The Great War. Maybe its safe to say that Fitzgerald’s novel just seems like something Fischer would desperately want to remake into a school play — its three acts of tragic perfection — to try to win the heart of Ms. Rosemary Cross.