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Professor Sarah Churchwell on Genius, Big Dreams and F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Gadsby and the Public

"I think we totally misread the novel," he says. "He was devastated that even the smartest people that he knew, the people whose critical wisdom he trusted the most didn't get it either." He writes these frustrated, pissed off letters that say nobody has any idea what this novel is about,. which to me means that he doesn't think it's really about the American dream in any meaningful sense"

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