'Three years before the novel was published by Scribner's, Fitzgerald said that he planned to write "something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." His old friend, Edmund Wilson, read the book immediately. He told Fitzgerald it was the best work he had done, although he thought the characters were unpleasant. T.S. Eliot told him it was the best new novel he had read in years.' - From The Writer's Almanac, MPR.
1. Based on your reading of the novel so far, do you think Fitzgerald accomplished his goal?
2. How far do you agree with Wilson's comment that the 'characters were unpleasant?' Is there any way to argue against this? (TRY)!
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