Babylon Revisited When the discussing the idea of a tragic figure in literary genre the idea that disaster has struck mostly is brought forth, yet when reading Scott Fitzgerald’s Babylon Revisited from that viewpoint there is not much of a great dramatic disaster that occurs. What a tragic figure truly is defined as is a literary character who makes a bad decision that inevitably leads to disaster within the character’s life. With this understanding of what a tragic figure really is, the main character within Babylon Revisited demonstrates a tragic hero in the sense that he ultimately makes a decision that altered his life. A major characteristic that makes him this tragic figure is the fact that he is responsible for his own downfall and
