"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
These words of F. Scott Fitzgerald from The Great Gatsby, are the ultimate judgment of the beautiful and rich by Nick Carraway, and presumably Fitzgerald himself. Today’s bankers, stock traders, car company executives, and hedge fund managers prove that nothing much has changed. Gene Mirabelli at Critical Pages offers this brief profile of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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