mrs_galaxywanderer091825 's review for:

Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.0

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This was my first read by F. Scott Fitzgerald but I didn't know much about his work at this time since I was 11 years old when I first read it. Honestly I forgot all about this short story and only remembered it once I found a copy of this story among my school papers. After rereading this story I realized how I forgot this book after all this time. This was a nice introduction to his work but there wasn't anything too spectacular about it. I did like how the main character (Charlie) admits to having one alcoholic drink a day as that shows how the character has grown from his party days and time in a sanatorium. There were times that Marian (Charlie's sister-in-law) annoyed me tremendously as she was incredibly hostile toward Charlie for spending time in a sanatorium or having had a drinking problem in the past. I'm still not sure how responsible Helen's death was Charlie's fault since she died of heart trouble. How her husband Lincoln, who is such a kind and good man, married her is a mystery to me.