Usually when an author puts the a certain word in quotation marks when it’s not technically supposed to be there is when they are trying to be sarcastic. For example-
If I knew a boy that wasn’t the most bright person and I wanted to be sarcastic I would say Oh yeah, he’s real “bright”.
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The reader should ask, "Why did the author write this text?"
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth.