Scott Fitzgerald
always drank like a professional, collapsing the arc from charming to churlish early on.
This sentence is from a review by P. Green of ’Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald’ in The NY Times.
Does it mean he drank a lot and alcohol turned him "from charming to churlish"? I am not sure.
And how to understand “early on” here?
Answer
I think you have answered it yourself. It sounds correct to me. I think it means he drinks a lot and shortly after beginning to drink reaches from a good mood (after drinking a little!) to a bad mood (after continuing to drink), from feeling charming to become rough and violent.
Early on means "hortly after the beginning."
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