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Lord bless us, how that man could write! I never used to think so. If memory serves, T met Fitzgerald for the first time in a Survey of American Lit course almost 60 years ago. The class read "Gatsby," but the experience left no impression on the hard clay of this undergraduate mind. In the ensuing years, if I thought of Fitzgerald at all, I thought him a second-rater.
No more. In the first chapter of "Gatsby," Fitzgerald lays the-groundwork of his plot, introduces three of the four principal characters, and sets the scene of Long Island in the early 1920s. The opening chapter runs to a scant 22 pages, but for descriptive writing it is hard to beat. ,
Of the mysterious Gatsby we learn that "there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes 10,000 miles away."
We move a mile or so to the home of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. "They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together." In a half a
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