EN 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: The Waste Land, James Franco, Counterpoint
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Fitzgerald is purer than faulkner and hemingway. Serious writer; writing was an act of labor to him (didn"t just write the great. Money ruins things (ironic to the american dream) Fitzgerald was ruthlessly honest with what money does to people and relationships. His rise to fame in the 20s and the collapse of the stock market in the 30s (and his sobering up) P. 677 - now at least you can go into a store without a sort of magic around us. Charlie still has the romance for money. Marion doesn"t like charlie and fully blames him for the death of his sister. He"s a recovering alcoholic, but he still have one drink a day (tremendous strength or a sign of a longing for a former lifestyle) End of section 1: so much for the effort and ingenuity of montmartre an increase of paying for the privilege of slower and slower motion .
