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Fitzgerald's Short Story, the Four Fists
I think his short story stuff is so often dismissed as schlock or, you know, stuff done for the money. But I think one, it's a lot of it super good. And if you think about he's delivering these profound moral lessons to people reading news about murders and all the nonsense of yellow journalism that he was competing with at that time,. It's really impressive. He'd been writing magazine fiction to length for years. So he knew what the lengths were. The diamond is big as the Ritz is a satire but more importantly for today,It's a satire of capitalism. And it's about how American monopoly capitalism is built on slavery. That's something that he sees