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All the Sad Young Men
All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of nine short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in February 1926.Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda was romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure.As with his other collections, its release was timed to follow the completion of his most recent novel, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald wrote "Absolution", one of the best-received stories in the collection, as a false start to Gatsby.Expertly formatted with a linked table of contents. Look for more classic books from Green Light. Visit us at - GreenLighteBooks.tumblr.comTwitter - @GreenLightbooks and facebook.com/greenlightbooks
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
2,320 books25.5k followersFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
Born into a middle-class family in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. Owing to a failed romantic relationship with Chicago socialite Ginevra King, he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. Although she initially rejected Fitzgerald's marriage proposal due to his lack of financial prospects, Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works during the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death. In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.
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November 1, 2025
All the Sad Young Men… A collection of nine stylish stories…
The Rich Boy – the rich are masters of their own unhappiness…
Winter Dreams starts with the boy’s romantic dreams… And then the story slowly turns into a tale of lost love.
The Baby Party… There is a baby party, indeed… But the story is about the vanity of grownups…
Absolution is a sarcastic tale of religious indoctrination.
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les is a caustic satire of a rich silly girl returning to her homeland…
The Adjuster is a parable… There is a selfish wife and a lot of family troubles…
Hot and Cold Blood is a sad story of kindness…
The Sensible Thing is a story of poverty… And of puppy love that flopped… And even the found riches couldn’t regain lost love…
Gretchen’s Forty Winks… Excessive ambitions may yield quite unexpected results…
The poor will never understand the rich.
The Rich Boy – the rich are masters of their own unhappiness…
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.
Winter Dreams starts with the boy’s romantic dreams… And then the story slowly turns into a tale of lost love.
The Baby Party… There is a baby party, indeed… But the story is about the vanity of grownups…
Absolution is a sarcastic tale of religious indoctrination.
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les is a caustic satire of a rich silly girl returning to her homeland…
The five dogs, the three maids, and the French orphan were installed in the largest suite at the Ritz, and Rags tumbled lazily into a steaming bath, fragrant with herbs, where she dozed for the greater part of an hour. At the end of that time she received business calls from a masseuse, a manicure, and finally a Parisian hair-dresser, who restored her hair-cut to criminal’s length.
The Adjuster is a parable… There is a selfish wife and a lot of family troubles…
Hot and Cold Blood is a sad story of kindness…
The Sensible Thing is a story of poverty… And of puppy love that flopped… And even the found riches couldn’t regain lost love…
He was in a mess, one of those terrific messes which are ordinary incidents in the life of the poor, which follow poverty like birds of prey.
Gretchen’s Forty Winks… Excessive ambitions may yield quite unexpected results…
The poor will never understand the rich.
October 26, 2016
“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”
----F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, an American writer, published his collection of short stories, All the Sad Young Men after the fame of his most popular novel, The Great Gatsby where the author has used the same themes of flapper and Jazz age, where the rich men and women had the time of their lives without giving a care about other people around them. This collection reflects that era in American when money mixed with sweat looked like glitter and emotions ran wild among the folks.
Synopsis:
Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel’s themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac ‘The Rich Boy’ and ‘Winter Dreams’, deal with wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love; while ‘Absolution’, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby.
Also containing ‘The Baby Party’, ‘Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr–nce of W–les’, ‘The Adjuster’, ‘Hot and Cold Blood’, ‘The Sensible Thing’ and ‘Gretchen’s Forty Winks’ – all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited – All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.
If Fitzgerald's long-length novels like The Great Gatsby or This Side of Paradise have allured you with his eloquent and exquisite writing style and prose, then you must look away from his short stories collection All the Sad Young Men where the stories no doubt reflect that unmatched flair of Fitzgerald but lacks emotions or depth from the story lines. So grab this book, only if you want to have an idea or to feel Fitzgerald's writing style through these short quick stories.
Except one or two stories, the rest are mildly fulfilling and engaging enough to continue reading this book till the very last page. As you all know, Fitzgerald portrays his protagonists as someone rich or going to be rich someday very soon or an heir to a rich, established business or someone belonging from an affluent family, in each and every story, you will find such protagonists, mostly men and few women, who are unexceptionally beautiful, filthy rich and wants to exploit the emotions of men with their careless demeanor. But then again, the characters feel very real, the human who are very rich from a financial standpoint, are actually very fickle minded and emotionally vacant, and in our everyday lives, we might have come across such people at some time.
My personal favorites from this book are Gretchen's Forty Winks, Absolution and The Baby Party which are bit unusual and the characters are striking enough to leave an impression in the minds of the readers. These few stories are not only intriguing but are quite composite to get through the character's emotional despair and restlessness. The characters maybe are not layered but are real and voices their stories with a perceptive voice, that is thought provocative for the readers. Also not to mention, these few stories are extremely high on morality, life's values and lessons underlying with an important message.
In a nutshell, this is a compelling enough book to edge the readers away from the book hangovers or to lust on Fitzgerald's suggestive writing style or to feel the 20s era in America with flappers, rich with the smell of green money, glittery dresses and golden dreams.
Verdict: A bite into the world of one of the greatest American writer, Fitzgerald's delectable slice of literature.
----F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, an American writer, published his collection of short stories, All the Sad Young Men after the fame of his most popular novel, The Great Gatsby where the author has used the same themes of flapper and Jazz age, where the rich men and women had the time of their lives without giving a care about other people around them. This collection reflects that era in American when money mixed with sweat looked like glitter and emotions ran wild among the folks.
Synopsis:
Published a year after The Great Gatsby, this short-story collection showcases many of the celebrated novel’s themes, as well as its unique writing style. Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac ‘The Rich Boy’ and ‘Winter Dreams’, deal with wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love; while ‘Absolution’, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby.
Also containing ‘The Baby Party’, ‘Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr–nce of W–les’, ‘The Adjuster’, ‘Hot and Cold Blood’, ‘The Sensible Thing’ and ‘Gretchen’s Forty Winks’ – all of which describe in various ways the 1920s society that Fitzgerald himself inhabited – All the Sad Young Men is a masterpiece of twentieth-century American fiction.
If Fitzgerald's long-length novels like The Great Gatsby or This Side of Paradise have allured you with his eloquent and exquisite writing style and prose, then you must look away from his short stories collection All the Sad Young Men where the stories no doubt reflect that unmatched flair of Fitzgerald but lacks emotions or depth from the story lines. So grab this book, only if you want to have an idea or to feel Fitzgerald's writing style through these short quick stories.
Except one or two stories, the rest are mildly fulfilling and engaging enough to continue reading this book till the very last page. As you all know, Fitzgerald portrays his protagonists as someone rich or going to be rich someday very soon or an heir to a rich, established business or someone belonging from an affluent family, in each and every story, you will find such protagonists, mostly men and few women, who are unexceptionally beautiful, filthy rich and wants to exploit the emotions of men with their careless demeanor. But then again, the characters feel very real, the human who are very rich from a financial standpoint, are actually very fickle minded and emotionally vacant, and in our everyday lives, we might have come across such people at some time.
My personal favorites from this book are Gretchen's Forty Winks, Absolution and The Baby Party which are bit unusual and the characters are striking enough to leave an impression in the minds of the readers. These few stories are not only intriguing but are quite composite to get through the character's emotional despair and restlessness. The characters maybe are not layered but are real and voices their stories with a perceptive voice, that is thought provocative for the readers. Also not to mention, these few stories are extremely high on morality, life's values and lessons underlying with an important message.
In a nutshell, this is a compelling enough book to edge the readers away from the book hangovers or to lust on Fitzgerald's suggestive writing style or to feel the 20s era in America with flappers, rich with the smell of green money, glittery dresses and golden dreams.
Verdict: A bite into the world of one of the greatest American writer, Fitzgerald's delectable slice of literature.
June 7, 2013
Great short stories, one a day in my lunch break. If you can't get enough of the Great Gatsby these are great bite size chunks for dessert.
June 5, 2022
Free download available at Project Gutenberg
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CONTENTS
The Rich Boy
Winter Dreams
The Baby Party
Absolution
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
The Adjuster
Hot and Cold Blood
"The Sensible Thing"
Gretchen's Forty Winks
I made the proofing of this book for Free Literature and Project Gutenberg will publish it.
CONTENTS
The Rich Boy
Winter Dreams
The Baby Party
Absolution
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
The Adjuster
Hot and Cold Blood
"The Sensible Thing"
Gretchen's Forty Winks
November 19, 2020
I enjoyed this. He got a little experimental here as a couple had pretty strange endings. The 9 stories are as follows:
The Rich Boy - 4 Stars
Winter Dreams - 3 Stars
The Baby Party - 5 Stars
Absolution - 4 Stars
Rags Martin-Jones and the Prince of Wales - 4 Stars
The Adjuster - 5 Stars
Hot and Cold Blood - 4 Stars
The Sensible Thing - 5 Stars
Gretchen’s Forty Winks - 5 Stars
The Rich Boy - 4 Stars
Winter Dreams - 3 Stars
The Baby Party - 5 Stars
Absolution - 4 Stars
Rags Martin-Jones and the Prince of Wales - 4 Stars
The Adjuster - 5 Stars
Hot and Cold Blood - 4 Stars
The Sensible Thing - 5 Stars
Gretchen’s Forty Winks - 5 Stars
June 5, 2023
Fitzgerald suggests: romance and beauty exist only as fleeting moments and glittering illusions; once their spell breaks, there is melancholy.
September 26, 2024
As with all of Fitzgerald’s work, the writing is superb; his words are so unique describing the mundane as well as the breathtaking shows his literary genius. The stories distinctive, there are no others like it elsewhere. Of course, Fitzgerald’s ability to take the mundane and push it to the extent of ridiculousness is quite humorous. The behavior, speech, and mannerisms of his characters have always made me wonder: did people back in the roaring twenties really behave this way? Or should I take it as satire of the times, which is what Fitzgerald is known for.
Short Story Collection Includes:
1. The Rich Boy: excellent beginning of human observation:
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.
The narrator tells the story of a rich man whose only happiness relies upon the admiration of him by others, especially women. It’s quite a sad story due the rich man’s shallowness which results in loneliness. (my third favorite) 5*****
2. Winter Dreams: rags to riches story about the quest/journey of a man whose involvement with a flirty girl who strings him along with multiple men until she finally settles down, but not with him, and learns that with age her beauty diminishes. Also includes the insight of how shallow the perceptiveness of physical beauty can be, and how it causes disappointment and loneliness 4****
3.The Baby Party: a father joins his wife and young daughter at a birthday party that has gotten out of hand, which results in as much juvenile behavior with all the adults involved as the two-year-olds at the party 3***
4. Absolution: a tormented priest struggles with his own sin while listening to a child dealing with his own sinful nature 3***
5. Rags Martin-Gones and the Pr-nce of W-ales: a spoiled starlet is surprised by an admirer in an intense scene at a rooftop restaurant 4****
6. The Adjuster: a disgruntled housewife must deal with her husband’s mental breakdown and other family tragedies. Fitzgerald wrote this with a sensitive touch (my second favorite story) 5*****
7. Hot and Cold Blood: an unhappy wife complains to her husband that he’s ‘too nice’ and is always being taken advantage of, and how the husband dealt with it. Again, Fitzgerald observations of human behavior shine in this touching story.
My favorite quote:
“Just at this time,” she went on brokenly, “I need you. I need your strength and your health and your arms around me. And if you—if you just give it to every one, it’s spread so thin when it reaches me—”
What spouse didn’t feel this way at one time or another? A perfect example of Fitzgerald’s innate ability to write raw emotion in their characters. This story stays with you long after you finished it. (my favorite) 5****
8. “The Sensible Thing”: a young man trying to earn a living large enough to get married, and how distant him and the one that he loved have become, and comes back to her once he became successful. 4****
My favorite quote:
9. Gretchen’s Forty Winks: an advertise executive works overtime to land a big account which would ease the family’s financial strain, but in the process creates a wedge between the spouses 4****
A must read, especially if love Fitzgerald’s written words. Overall, a 4.5****½* read and that’s because two stories I liked less than the others.
Short Story Collection Includes:
1. The Rich Boy: excellent beginning of human observation:
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing. That is because we are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.
The narrator tells the story of a rich man whose only happiness relies upon the admiration of him by others, especially women. It’s quite a sad story due the rich man’s shallowness which results in loneliness. (my third favorite) 5*****
2. Winter Dreams: rags to riches story about the quest/journey of a man whose involvement with a flirty girl who strings him along with multiple men until she finally settles down, but not with him, and learns that with age her beauty diminishes. Also includes the insight of how shallow the perceptiveness of physical beauty can be, and how it causes disappointment and loneliness 4****
3.The Baby Party: a father joins his wife and young daughter at a birthday party that has gotten out of hand, which results in as much juvenile behavior with all the adults involved as the two-year-olds at the party 3***
4. Absolution: a tormented priest struggles with his own sin while listening to a child dealing with his own sinful nature 3***
5. Rags Martin-Gones and the Pr-nce of W-ales: a spoiled starlet is surprised by an admirer in an intense scene at a rooftop restaurant 4****
6. The Adjuster: a disgruntled housewife must deal with her husband’s mental breakdown and other family tragedies. Fitzgerald wrote this with a sensitive touch (my second favorite story) 5*****
7. Hot and Cold Blood: an unhappy wife complains to her husband that he’s ‘too nice’ and is always being taken advantage of, and how the husband dealt with it. Again, Fitzgerald observations of human behavior shine in this touching story.
My favorite quote:
“Just at this time,” she went on brokenly, “I need you. I need your strength and your health and your arms around me. And if you—if you just give it to every one, it’s spread so thin when it reaches me—”
What spouse didn’t feel this way at one time or another? A perfect example of Fitzgerald’s innate ability to write raw emotion in their characters. This story stays with you long after you finished it. (my favorite) 5****
8. “The Sensible Thing”: a young man trying to earn a living large enough to get married, and how distant him and the one that he loved have become, and comes back to her once he became successful. 4****
My favorite quote:
9. Gretchen’s Forty Winks: an advertise executive works overtime to land a big account which would ease the family’s financial strain, but in the process creates a wedge between the spouses 4****
A must read, especially if love Fitzgerald’s written words. Overall, a 4.5****½* read and that’s because two stories I liked less than the others.
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September 20, 2013So just like last September, I found myself reading Fitzgerald short stories as summer packed its bags. But whereas then I'd deliberately been putting off Tender, this year I was all ready to finally take its hand, until this fine slim fellow seduced me in the library. The first time I've read any of his work in one of the original selections, rather than a collection curated later, and as such a far better illustration of how patchy he could be; some of the stories here, while fundamentally sketches for Gatsby, are sublime. But others are moralistic claptrap which would be at home in the People's Friend, the sort of maddening stuff that makes me realise why American literary short stories took against twists, and indeed plots, for so long. Still, even those are generally lifted here and there by a sparkling sentence which leaves you taken aback at the utter, impermanent beauty of it all.
September 6, 2017
I just felt like reading Fitzgerald, so rather than picking up Gatsby again I thought I'd give this short story collection a go. As expected, it was full of sad, kinda whiny wealthy boys and I really enjoyed most of the stories. Not quite as dazzling or amazing as Gatsby but still had that Fitgerald flair that I love!
December 3, 2018
Shame the edition I read had two missing stories. My biggest issue is the way women are written to be only the possessions of men. Because of this archetype I found all the protagonists very unlikable and could not care or engage with their stories. A product of its time, perhaps. But even then most men did not actually see the world that way.
May 15, 2023
4-4,5
“(…) it is one of the many flaws in the scheme of human relationships that selfishness in women had an irresistible appeal to so many men.”
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
“(…) it is one of the many flaws in the scheme of human relationships that selfishness in women had an irresistible appeal to so many men.”
“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”
March 14, 2025
interesting to see the making of the sausage. seeing him circle around familiar ideas, even if they weren’t necessarily as thoughtful or impactful. cannot even begin to imagine how zelda received all of these. perhaps our most down bad writer
August 18, 2025
What lies beyond the fleeting passions and dwindling beauty of Fitzgerald's world? Disillusionment, an inordinate banalness, and a healthy dose of charm.
March 2, 2024
F. Scott Fitzgerald is amongst my most favourite authors and he almost never fails to impress and amaze me. I just love his style, his themes, his understanding of human nature and its imperfections.
I have read most of his works and I am still to agree with myself whether his novels or his short stories I like best. After reading All the Sad Young Men I am inclined towards the latter.
In this collection of short stories, Fitzgerald deals with his favourite theme - the Lost Generation. Men and women, either rich or who have made themselves rich, find themselves at a crossroad. Nothing excites them, life bores them, they have no aspirations, no dreams, no struggles to motivate them or desires to sustain them. They succumb into a shallow life driven by possessions, money, and status and they find themselves alone and bitter at the end. Indeed, it sounds like the majority of Fitzgerald’s works but somehow he manages to make each and every story unique, compelling, and engaging. And however flawed his characters, one cannot help but sympathise with their struggles.
I particularly enjoyed several stories. The Rich Boy - Anson Hunter is like Fitzgerald’s most famous characters, and like the author himself - a lost rich boy who goes through life enjoying himself and searching for the peaks and pleasures at all times, only to find out at the end he is alone and unable to love. The Baby Party - this one made me laugh with the absurdity of the situation and how quickly it escalated. The Adjuster - probably one of the few Fitzgerald stories with a sort of a happy end (well not ideal but happier than the rest). Luella Hemple is an overly satisfied young woman with a rich husband and a small baby. However, she is in a search for excitement and when an unbelievable tragedy strikes, she is forced to re-examine her values and to grow up. The Sensible Thing - very similar to the Great Gatsby in that the main character reinvents himself to win the love of a shallow young girl.
I might stop here because I am going to list all of the short stories - that’s how much I love Fitzgerald. His difficult and miserable life gave rise to amazing literature that to this day makes us envy and feel sorry for the Lost Generation.
I have read most of his works and I am still to agree with myself whether his novels or his short stories I like best. After reading All the Sad Young Men I am inclined towards the latter.
In this collection of short stories, Fitzgerald deals with his favourite theme - the Lost Generation. Men and women, either rich or who have made themselves rich, find themselves at a crossroad. Nothing excites them, life bores them, they have no aspirations, no dreams, no struggles to motivate them or desires to sustain them. They succumb into a shallow life driven by possessions, money, and status and they find themselves alone and bitter at the end. Indeed, it sounds like the majority of Fitzgerald’s works but somehow he manages to make each and every story unique, compelling, and engaging. And however flawed his characters, one cannot help but sympathise with their struggles.
I particularly enjoyed several stories. The Rich Boy - Anson Hunter is like Fitzgerald’s most famous characters, and like the author himself - a lost rich boy who goes through life enjoying himself and searching for the peaks and pleasures at all times, only to find out at the end he is alone and unable to love. The Baby Party - this one made me laugh with the absurdity of the situation and how quickly it escalated. The Adjuster - probably one of the few Fitzgerald stories with a sort of a happy end (well not ideal but happier than the rest). Luella Hemple is an overly satisfied young woman with a rich husband and a small baby. However, she is in a search for excitement and when an unbelievable tragedy strikes, she is forced to re-examine her values and to grow up. The Sensible Thing - very similar to the Great Gatsby in that the main character reinvents himself to win the love of a shallow young girl.
I might stop here because I am going to list all of the short stories - that’s how much I love Fitzgerald. His difficult and miserable life gave rise to amazing literature that to this day makes us envy and feel sorry for the Lost Generation.
November 20, 2022
Ah, but the man could write!
The "sad young men" of the title are some in their 20s and 30s about whom Fitzgerald wrote 100 years ago, and yet their passions, pursuits, obsessions, quirks, and blunders remind me of the "young man" I once was, too!
He does a great job of portraying their exuberance -- and the associated sense of surety -- that I remember once having, too, despite the fact that these can often lead young people to over-commit (to work as well as to people) and to occasionally err badly.
He captures the sense both of "this is our time" as well as "it's now or never," both hallmarks of a younger and more innocent time in human lifespans.
I found all of these stories engaging and fun to read, even if they inevitably told of some sadnesses. Such is the "mixed cocktail" of life.
But, oh my, how the man could write!!!
The "sad young men" of the title are some in their 20s and 30s about whom Fitzgerald wrote 100 years ago, and yet their passions, pursuits, obsessions, quirks, and blunders remind me of the "young man" I once was, too!
He does a great job of portraying their exuberance -- and the associated sense of surety -- that I remember once having, too, despite the fact that these can often lead young people to over-commit (to work as well as to people) and to occasionally err badly.
He captures the sense both of "this is our time" as well as "it's now or never," both hallmarks of a younger and more innocent time in human lifespans.
I found all of these stories engaging and fun to read, even if they inevitably told of some sadnesses. Such is the "mixed cocktail" of life.
But, oh my, how the man could write!!!
May 11, 2016
Uşor melodramatică(probabil e propice pentru epoca respectivă) această incursiune - cu răzlețe metafore pentru atmosferă - în scurte dar concise povestioare a unor vremuri strălucitoare şi suflete deznădăjduite. Fitzgerald are abilitatea de a stârni un fior în sufletul cititorului avid de căutare a echilibrului, împlinirii, pe fondul unor apăsătoare idealuri care incetează să dea un suflu nou personajelor, tocmai pentru că, aceste idealuri, sunt atât de departe, dificil de atins şi pricinuiesc mai degrabă apariții fantomatice.
January 10, 2022
Yes yes very nice a bit unhinged but very good
April 23, 2017
This volume of these 9 short stories might easily have been described as an anti-climax after the perfection and smashing success of 'The Great Gatsby' published just a year before..for many reasons_ mainly, for the frustrations that my beloved writer was undergoing at the time of writing them. He was suffering from marital and financial problems and that showed a great deal upon his words.
Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac ‘The Rich Boy’ and ‘Winter Dreams’, deal with wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love; while ‘Absolution’, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby.
Except one or two stories, the rest are mildly fulfilling and engaging enough to continue reading this book till the very last page.But all in all, the book was for me an extra nice bite into the world of one of the greatest American writers_ Fitzgerald's delectable slice of literature.
“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”
----F. Scott Fitzgerald. <3
Two of the most famous tales, the beautifully elegiac ‘The Rich Boy’ and ‘Winter Dreams’, deal with wealthy protagonists – the old-money Anson Hunter and the self-made man Dexter Green – as they come to terms with lost love; while ‘Absolution’, in which a boy confesses to a priest, was initially written as a background piece to The Great Gatsby.
Except one or two stories, the rest are mildly fulfilling and engaging enough to continue reading this book till the very last page.But all in all, the book was for me an extra nice bite into the world of one of the greatest American writers_ Fitzgerald's delectable slice of literature.
“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”
----F. Scott Fitzgerald. <3
August 16, 2024
Some of the stories in this collection are phenomenal and among the best of all of Fitzgeralds writing (The Rich Boy, Winter Dreams, The Adjuster, The Sensible Thing, Gretchen's Forty Winks). The rest are largely forgetful. The Adjustor and The Rich Boy are my favorites in the collection
December 4, 2017
I enjoyed this collection of short stories.
June 8, 2018
“I am five years.”
Read
December 20, 2019"Vi sono al mondo amori di ogni sorta, ma non esiste mai due volte lo stesso amore."
January 30, 2025
absolute perfection as always
July 11, 2025
favorite genre (miserable men)
August 24, 2025
176/227 dnf
November 17, 2025
This just reinforced that Fitzgerald is, without a doubt, my favorite author. Never misses.
October 17, 2022
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third short story collection, All the Sad Young Men, was published in February 1926, ten months after the release of his third novel The Great Gatsby. It was the pattern of Fitzgerald’s publisher Scribner’s to issue a collection of his short stories immediately following the publication of one of his novels.
All the Sad Young Men was Fitzgerald’s strongest short story collection to date, and it contains four of his very best short stories: “The Rich Boy,” “Winter Dreams,” “Absolution,” and “’The Sensible Thing.’”
Similar to The Great Gatsby, “The Rich Boy” also features narration from a secondary character. “The Rich Boy” starts with this memorable opening line:
“Begin with an individual and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing.” (p.3)
The third paragraph of the story begins with these famous lines:
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are, because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.” (p.3)
Ernest Hemingway famously misquoted the first two lines of that paragraph in his 1936 short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Hemingway attacked Fitzgerald by name in the story, writing of Fitzgerald and the rich “He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ‘The very rich are different from you and me.’ And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamorous race and when he found they weren’t it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that had wrecked him.” (Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, p.72)
Hemingway’s inclusion of Fitzgerald in his story was superfluous to the plot, and Esquire editor Arnold Gingrich should have insisted that Hemingway cut it, rather than start a feud between two of his star writers. Fitzgerald was obviously annoyed by Hemingway’s mention of him and wrote a letter to Hemingway that began: “Please lay off me in print.” Maxwell Perkins finally convinced Hemingway to change Scott to “Julian” when the story appeared in book form.
As Scott Donaldson and other scholars have shown, what really happened, according to Maxwell Perkins, was that Hemingway had said that he was getting to know the rich, and the author Mary Colum responded with, “The only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money.” (Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, p.198) For whatever reason, Hemingway then rewrote the incident to make the punchline at Fitzgerald’s expense.
Reading “The Rich Boy” may cause us to rethink the veracity of Nick Carraway’s narration in The Great Gatsby. Chapter 3 of Gatsby ends with Nick writing: “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” (p.64) The narrator of “The Rich Boy” cautions us in the first paragraph:
“When I hear a man proclaiming himself an ‘average, honest, open fellow’ I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal—and his protestation of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.” (p.3)
“The Rich Boy” demonstrates Fitzgerald’s devotion to his craft and his tireless editing: he made more than 500 changes between the magazine and book versions of the story. (Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, by Matthew J. Bruccoli, p.229)
“Winter Dreams” was, Fitzgerald later wrote, “sort of a 1st draft of the Gatsby idea.” There’s certainly a connection to be made between Dexter Green’s constant striving and Jay Gatsby’s bold reinvention of himself. “Winter Dreams” is a story that is deeply connected to Fitzgerald’s home state of Minnesota. The town of “Black Bear Lake” is modeled on White Bear Lake, and the “Sherry Island Golf Club” where Dexter caddies and first sees Judy Jones on the driving range, is the White Bear Yacht Club, where Scott and Zelda lived during the summer of 1922, while Fitzgerald was writing “Winter Dreams.”
To best examine the connections between “Winter Dreams” and The Great Gatsby, you need to read the original text of the story, as it appeared in the December 1922 issue of Metropolitan magazine. Fitzgerald incorporated sentences and phrases from the magazine version of “Winter Dreams” into Gatsby, and then re-wrote the text for the version of the story that appears in All the Sad Young Men. “Winter Dreams” is beautiful and haunting, one of Fitzgerald’s finest short stories.
“The Baby Party” is pretty slight, especially in comparison to the two excellent short stories that have preceded it.
“Absolution” is fantastic, and one of Fitzgerald’s few short stories that features Catholicism as a theme. Fitzgerald was raised Catholic and spent his junior and senior years of high school attending the Newman School, a Catholic prep academy in New Jersey. By the time he was an adult, Fitzgerald was no longer a practicing Catholic.
The main character in “Absolution” is Rudolph Miller, an 11-year-old boy who goes to confession. After confessing his sins, large and small, the priest asks Rudolph if he has told any lies. Rudolph responds, “Oh, no, Father, I never tell lies.” Rudolph is now caught in a paradox: “he realized that in heroically denying he had told lies, he had committed a terrible sin—he had told a lie in confession.” (p.84)
“Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les" (yes, the dashes are in the title of the story) is a festive romp, similar in theme to Fitzgerald’s earlier short story “The Off-Shore Pirate.” The Prince of Wales at the time Fitzgerald wrote the story was the future King Edward VIII, who ruled for less than a year before abdicating the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson—thereafter, he was known as the Duke of Windsor.
“The Adjuster,” about a frivolous wife who adjusts her temperament in order to take care of her ill husband, reminded me a bit of Edith Wharton’s novels and short stories. There’s a marvelous quote in the story from the mysterious Doctor Moon, who tells Luella, “You’re trying to leave yourself behind but you can’t. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you.” (p.135) Fitzgerald may have been trying to give himself advice, as he was always on the move throughout his life.
“Hot and Cold Blood” has a tiny connection to Gatsby: the main character Jim Mather runs a successful hardware store, which is also the family business of the Carraways. Fitzgerald describes Mather as “essentially and enormously romantic,” a character trait that I would say Mather shares with Fitzgerald himself. (p.147) A reference to Selby Avenue pinpoints “Hot and Cold Blood” as being another of Fitzgerald’s short stories set in his hometown of Saint Paul. (p.149)
“’The Sensible Thing’” is one of my favorite Fitzgerald stories, and the closing line could easily have been written with Jay Gatsby in mind: “There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” (p.169)
“Gretchen’s Forty Winks” is, well...a little problematic these days, as the main character ends up drugging his wife so she sleeps all day, and he can finally get the work done to secure an important client for his advertising business. It’s hard not to read the story as a portrait of Scott and Zelda’s own marriage. I’m not sure if that’s an accurate reading of the story, but it certainly went through my head. Perhaps Scott was indulging in some wish-fulfillment by writing this story.
All the Sad Young Men is a fantastic collection of short stories, and the book finds Fitzgerald reaching an artistic peak.
All the Sad Young Men was Fitzgerald’s strongest short story collection to date, and it contains four of his very best short stories: “The Rich Boy,” “Winter Dreams,” “Absolution,” and “’The Sensible Thing.’”
Similar to The Great Gatsby, “The Rich Boy” also features narration from a secondary character. “The Rich Boy” starts with this memorable opening line:
“Begin with an individual and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created—nothing.” (p.3)
The third paragraph of the story begins with these famous lines:
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are, because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.” (p.3)
Ernest Hemingway famously misquoted the first two lines of that paragraph in his 1936 short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.” Hemingway attacked Fitzgerald by name in the story, writing of Fitzgerald and the rich “He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ‘The very rich are different from you and me.’ And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamorous race and when he found they weren’t it wrecked him just as much as any other thing that had wrecked him.” (Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories, p.72)
Hemingway’s inclusion of Fitzgerald in his story was superfluous to the plot, and Esquire editor Arnold Gingrich should have insisted that Hemingway cut it, rather than start a feud between two of his star writers. Fitzgerald was obviously annoyed by Hemingway’s mention of him and wrote a letter to Hemingway that began: “Please lay off me in print.” Maxwell Perkins finally convinced Hemingway to change Scott to “Julian” when the story appeared in book form.
As Scott Donaldson and other scholars have shown, what really happened, according to Maxwell Perkins, was that Hemingway had said that he was getting to know the rich, and the author Mary Colum responded with, “The only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money.” (Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald, p.198) For whatever reason, Hemingway then rewrote the incident to make the punchline at Fitzgerald’s expense.
Reading “The Rich Boy” may cause us to rethink the veracity of Nick Carraway’s narration in The Great Gatsby. Chapter 3 of Gatsby ends with Nick writing: “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” (p.64) The narrator of “The Rich Boy” cautions us in the first paragraph:
“When I hear a man proclaiming himself an ‘average, honest, open fellow’ I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal—and his protestation of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.” (p.3)
“The Rich Boy” demonstrates Fitzgerald’s devotion to his craft and his tireless editing: he made more than 500 changes between the magazine and book versions of the story. (Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, by Matthew J. Bruccoli, p.229)
“Winter Dreams” was, Fitzgerald later wrote, “sort of a 1st draft of the Gatsby idea.” There’s certainly a connection to be made between Dexter Green’s constant striving and Jay Gatsby’s bold reinvention of himself. “Winter Dreams” is a story that is deeply connected to Fitzgerald’s home state of Minnesota. The town of “Black Bear Lake” is modeled on White Bear Lake, and the “Sherry Island Golf Club” where Dexter caddies and first sees Judy Jones on the driving range, is the White Bear Yacht Club, where Scott and Zelda lived during the summer of 1922, while Fitzgerald was writing “Winter Dreams.”
To best examine the connections between “Winter Dreams” and The Great Gatsby, you need to read the original text of the story, as it appeared in the December 1922 issue of Metropolitan magazine. Fitzgerald incorporated sentences and phrases from the magazine version of “Winter Dreams” into Gatsby, and then re-wrote the text for the version of the story that appears in All the Sad Young Men. “Winter Dreams” is beautiful and haunting, one of Fitzgerald’s finest short stories.
“The Baby Party” is pretty slight, especially in comparison to the two excellent short stories that have preceded it.
“Absolution” is fantastic, and one of Fitzgerald’s few short stories that features Catholicism as a theme. Fitzgerald was raised Catholic and spent his junior and senior years of high school attending the Newman School, a Catholic prep academy in New Jersey. By the time he was an adult, Fitzgerald was no longer a practicing Catholic.
The main character in “Absolution” is Rudolph Miller, an 11-year-old boy who goes to confession. After confessing his sins, large and small, the priest asks Rudolph if he has told any lies. Rudolph responds, “Oh, no, Father, I never tell lies.” Rudolph is now caught in a paradox: “he realized that in heroically denying he had told lies, he had committed a terrible sin—he had told a lie in confession.” (p.84)
“Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les" (yes, the dashes are in the title of the story) is a festive romp, similar in theme to Fitzgerald’s earlier short story “The Off-Shore Pirate.” The Prince of Wales at the time Fitzgerald wrote the story was the future King Edward VIII, who ruled for less than a year before abdicating the throne in order to marry Wallis Simpson—thereafter, he was known as the Duke of Windsor.
“The Adjuster,” about a frivolous wife who adjusts her temperament in order to take care of her ill husband, reminded me a bit of Edith Wharton’s novels and short stories. There’s a marvelous quote in the story from the mysterious Doctor Moon, who tells Luella, “You’re trying to leave yourself behind but you can’t. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you.” (p.135) Fitzgerald may have been trying to give himself advice, as he was always on the move throughout his life.
“Hot and Cold Blood” has a tiny connection to Gatsby: the main character Jim Mather runs a successful hardware store, which is also the family business of the Carraways. Fitzgerald describes Mather as “essentially and enormously romantic,” a character trait that I would say Mather shares with Fitzgerald himself. (p.147) A reference to Selby Avenue pinpoints “Hot and Cold Blood” as being another of Fitzgerald’s short stories set in his hometown of Saint Paul. (p.149)
“’The Sensible Thing’” is one of my favorite Fitzgerald stories, and the closing line could easily have been written with Jay Gatsby in mind: “There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.” (p.169)
“Gretchen’s Forty Winks” is, well...a little problematic these days, as the main character ends up drugging his wife so she sleeps all day, and he can finally get the work done to secure an important client for his advertising business. It’s hard not to read the story as a portrait of Scott and Zelda’s own marriage. I’m not sure if that’s an accurate reading of the story, but it certainly went through my head. Perhaps Scott was indulging in some wish-fulfillment by writing this story.
All the Sad Young Men is a fantastic collection of short stories, and the book finds Fitzgerald reaching an artistic peak.
October 28, 2013
TRE STELLE E MEZZA
L’attenzione dell’autore inizia a spostarsi dai “belli e dannati” agli young men che stanno diventando uomini, che hanno un velo di tristezza, che vedono sfuggir loro il sogno dalle mani come sabbia, che hanno a che fare per la prima volta con i debiti, i figli, le difficoltà del matrimonio.
[…]
… una raccolta che è estremamente unitaria e pensata…
[…]
E la raccolta è un unico libro su una generazione, sui sogni di quella generazione e, per quanto ci riguarda, sulle molte connessioni che essi hanno coi nostri sogni e con quelli di ogni altra epoca, quando si giunge alla linea d’ombra. Già, Conrad. Il momento è quello, l’ultimo fotogramma della giovinezza. Quando nulla è cambiato, anche se sembra tutto cambiato. Che cosa ci sia dopo, è incerto. Certa è la nebbia che sembra avvolgere da quel momento in poi il passato, coprire gli occhi, offuscare i ricordi. Diventare uomini, ecco il tema che rende Fitzgerald universale.
- dalla postfazione di Nicola Manuppelli
In un breve racconto si dispone appena del tempo sufficiente per acquistare un solo abito completo. Non le parti di molti. Un solo errore per quanto concerne le scarpe o la cravatta, e si è finiti.
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
I migliori racconti della raccolta: “Il ragazzo ricco”, “La festa dei bambini”, “Il paciere”, “Sangue caldo e freddo” e “Il sonnellino di Gretchen”.
http://www.subliminalpop.com/?p=7957
L’attenzione dell’autore inizia a spostarsi dai “belli e dannati” agli young men che stanno diventando uomini, che hanno un velo di tristezza, che vedono sfuggir loro il sogno dalle mani come sabbia, che hanno a che fare per la prima volta con i debiti, i figli, le difficoltà del matrimonio.
[…]
… una raccolta che è estremamente unitaria e pensata…
[…]
E la raccolta è un unico libro su una generazione, sui sogni di quella generazione e, per quanto ci riguarda, sulle molte connessioni che essi hanno coi nostri sogni e con quelli di ogni altra epoca, quando si giunge alla linea d’ombra. Già, Conrad. Il momento è quello, l’ultimo fotogramma della giovinezza. Quando nulla è cambiato, anche se sembra tutto cambiato. Che cosa ci sia dopo, è incerto. Certa è la nebbia che sembra avvolgere da quel momento in poi il passato, coprire gli occhi, offuscare i ricordi. Diventare uomini, ecco il tema che rende Fitzgerald universale.
- dalla postfazione di Nicola Manuppelli
In un breve racconto si dispone appena del tempo sufficiente per acquistare un solo abito completo. Non le parti di molti. Un solo errore per quanto concerne le scarpe o la cravatta, e si è finiti.
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
I migliori racconti della raccolta: “Il ragazzo ricco”, “La festa dei bambini”, “Il paciere”, “Sangue caldo e freddo” e “Il sonnellino di Gretchen”.
http://www.subliminalpop.com/?p=7957
January 7, 2025
First book of 2025 and also my first introduction to Fitzgerald. Really happy I went into this collection before jumping into Gatsby!
Thoroughly impressed by the range in this collection, while still able to link them cohesively through this notion of “the sad young men”. Definitely one of the most well-curated collections of shorts I’ve come across. There’s a really pleasant mix of realism, comedy, mild supernatural elements, and more that made every new story exciting to read.
Standouts from this collection definitely include: Absolution, Winter Dreams, The Rich Boy, Baby Party, The Sensible Thing, and The Adjuster. I’d say that Absolution in particular was such a departure from what I expected of Fitzgerald that it was just an absolute pleasure to read.
Lost a couple stars for shorts like Rags Martin-Jones which just lacked finesse in my opinion. These more comedic shorts (e.g., Rags or Gretchen’s Forty Winks) are not really my stile but, even then I’d say GFW was done significantly better than Rags.
Overall a really strong 3/5 to start off the New Year!
Thoroughly impressed by the range in this collection, while still able to link them cohesively through this notion of “the sad young men”. Definitely one of the most well-curated collections of shorts I’ve come across. There’s a really pleasant mix of realism, comedy, mild supernatural elements, and more that made every new story exciting to read.
Standouts from this collection definitely include: Absolution, Winter Dreams, The Rich Boy, Baby Party, The Sensible Thing, and The Adjuster. I’d say that Absolution in particular was such a departure from what I expected of Fitzgerald that it was just an absolute pleasure to read.
Lost a couple stars for shorts like Rags Martin-Jones which just lacked finesse in my opinion. These more comedic shorts (e.g., Rags or Gretchen’s Forty Winks) are not really my stile but, even then I’d say GFW was done significantly better than Rags.
Overall a really strong 3/5 to start off the New Year!
August 29, 2014
I liked it. This is the second Fitzgerald i've read and as a compilation of novellas it is good but not mind-blowing or anything. He has a very distinct writing style which became a lot more apparent after reading this. I don't know if this is written before or after The Great Gatsby but I felt like this was a pre-written and that it lead on to become that great novel.
It's all about men's success and stuff like that, so there's no female characters really, and it wasn't very keen on women when there were female characters. But I liked it quite well anyhow.
Honestly it was a bit repetitive and I mostly only finished it because I was travelling and only had this with me at the time. If you have read The Great Gatsby or are planning to read it, don't bother with this one.
It's all about men's success and stuff like that, so there's no female characters really, and it wasn't very keen on women when there were female characters. But I liked it quite well anyhow.
Honestly it was a bit repetitive and I mostly only finished it because I was travelling and only had this with me at the time. If you have read The Great Gatsby or are planning to read it, don't bother with this one.
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