Sharon Henning (gentlymad) - , reviewed on 1/4/2010 + 29 more book reviews

Fitzgerald writes in a style that eloquently depicts the Jazz Age. That happy decade which preceded the crash of the stock market and the ensuing depression. While creating interesting and vivid characters, he also exposes the shallow lives and emptiness of the world he lived in. His wife was from the South and some of his most interesting characters are Southern women. I don't believe he ever lost his fascination with their culture-undoubtedly different from his own midwestern background.
There often runs a common theme: an extraordinarily beautiful women captivates a man who makes it his life's obsession to woo and win her. The currents of his story run pretty deep, showing a penetrating insight into human nature-at least what part of it he was exposed to (meaning the society of rich and famous people).

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