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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
I thought this short story had a great amount of world building in it. I just wish there was more character development and a larger focus on the relationship between the characters.
F Scott Fitzgerald's writing consistantly shows misogyny an assumption that women must be beautiful but that beautiful women are culpable for all the suffering of men and a glorification of alcoholism. These stories follow that theme, but are mercifully brief.
I really love Fitzgerald's writing, though none of his stories in this collection were particularly up-lifting. I would read this again.
3.5 stars
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald boiled down as simplistically as possible. It is wealth and greed and corruption and illusion and disillusionment. Quick, funny, and a little jarring, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella-sized Fitzgerald with all of the themes he writes so well. Fast and easy!
This is F. Scott Fitzgerald boiled down as simplistically as possible. It is wealth and greed and corruption and illusion and disillusionment. Quick, funny, and a little jarring, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella-sized Fitzgerald with all of the themes he writes so well. Fast and easy!
This was a collection of three short stories. They were delightful and nicely written.
"I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life."
The book is pretty straight-forward and simple, arching the idea of Alcohol abuse as the central theme of the three following short stories: Babylon Revisited, Cut-glass Bowl, and The Lost Decade. The first short story is inspired by the author's true story of gaining custody of her daughter over the latter's aunt. After reading the collections did I know that Fitzgerald suffered this kind of episode at one point of his life.
In addition, this also seen the bitter reality of the year where the Great Depression started. It may lack development, or the transition from the Golden Years, but the stories, no matter how concise, depicted the frustrations of its people suffering from this hardship, emanating the sentiments of how fast The American Boom went by.
Try these short reads - you will know why F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a classic, and a required read to American students.
Each story in this book was gripping and fascinating in as much as I felt like turning the book upside down and shaking it to see if more chapters would somehow fall out and let me continue reading the plot of each one. I particularly enjoyed The Cut Glass Bowl , the way he creates a sense of suspense and character from the inanimate object was fantastic.
I never thought I could give 1 star to a Fitzgerald novel, but here we are. I didn’t like the plot at all, so I found it hard to like the characters as well.