The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26

What new comment one can say about Fitzzgeral? i’ll refrain since I can not add any wise and insightful remarks.
I want to mention, however, a variation of a phrase that I found very felicitous.

In the “Popular Girl” story, when Yancy finds herslef with little money but a check with $100,

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Fitzgerald says it should have “a zero on the happy side of the decimal”. Then, in “The Thied Casket” referring to young men under thirty hears old, Fitzgerald “writes on the hopeful side of thirty.”

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