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carosbcher's review
4.0
My first Fitzgerald - and definitively not my last! The two longer short stories ;) - Babylon Revisited and The Cut-Glass Bowl - were, well, remarkable! I can't think of a better word. I think I'll remember them for quite a time as they were both (though completely different) touching, sad and somehow strange but still they felt so real. They seemed to be typically 1920s-y and at the same time could just have happened to my neighbors yesterday.
Only the last very short story - The Lost Decade - was a little too strange for my taste and that's the only reason why I rate with one star missing.
Only the last very short story - The Lost Decade - was a little too strange for my taste and that's the only reason why I rate with one star missing.
kellyd's review
3.0
3.5 stars
This was not my favorite Fitzgerald work, but it did bring up some interesting insights with The Hangover in the 1930's. As well, the anti-climatic ending was actually well fitting for the tone of the story and one of the few I've read that really works.
This was not my favorite Fitzgerald work, but it did bring up some interesting insights with The Hangover in the 1930's. As well, the anti-climatic ending was actually well fitting for the tone of the story and one of the few I've read that really works.
chellyfish's review
3.0
A nice little short story: a man -- formerly a drunkard and deviant, unfoundedly rich and careless with money, whose wife died and sits on his conscience -- returns for guardianship of his daughter after a run of hard work and cleaning up. I found this story to have more whole characters than Fitzgerald's other short stories, and I honestly think the story of Charlie could have been fleshed out and expanded into something more like a short novel.
Perhaps a longer length and a buffing-up of the surrounding story would have fixed my major problem with this story: it ends so abruptly, and awkwardly. The whole story is working up toward the major action, which is thwarted, and then the story ends. Odd.
Perhaps a longer length and a buffing-up of the surrounding story would have fixed my major problem with this story: it ends so abruptly, and awkwardly. The whole story is working up toward the major action, which is thwarted, and then the story ends. Odd.
wordsofapaige's review
5.0
The penguin mini classics are awesome, and this one has 3 short stories by Fitzgerald.
They're easily read, but with deep meaning. The theme of alcohol also runs through them, tying them together. I really enjoyed them. t's a cheap, and easy way to read more classics.
They're easily read, but with deep meaning. The theme of alcohol also runs through them, tying them together. I really enjoyed them. t's a cheap, and easy way to read more classics.
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