Em seus contos efervescentes de elegantes ingênuos à espreita de maridos, herdeiros da Ivy League a caminho de futuros de direitos ociosos e festas dançantes cheias de álcool em clubes de country chiques, ele descreveu uma cultura tonta de excesso e tão imprudente quanto refinada. Dotado de notáveis poderes de observação e um jeito espirituoso com as palavras, Fitzgerald escreveu histórias que parecem tão frescas e modernas hoje quanto pareciam quando publicadas há quase um século.
No writer portrayed America’s Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of elegant ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published nearly a century ago.
