In a message dated 3/11/02 2:41:38 PM,
pruettc@hotmail.com writes:
<< It's not the plot of Gatsby but something about the
language and pacing that brings the crime writers to mind.
>>
And also, the mood and cinema verite'
observation in Gatsby (and elsewhere in Fitzgerald's work)
marches in time with Chandler, Ross McDonald, and others. The
monied life is lush, beautiful, and empty -- romance is the
best thing that can happen, but it is invariably doomed.
Those wonderful opening paragraphs of "The Long Good-bye"
read like much like a passage from Fitzgerald.
Jim
Blue
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