It is not sensibility, as witness the writings of Don Marquis, Robert Benchley and Ring Lardner. Has slowly become conscious a new humor-a strictly American product. Out of this grotesque fusion of incongruities It is humor, irony, ribaldry, pathos and loveliness. It expresses one phase of the great grotesque spectacle of our American scene. Of this excessive attention, a seat of festive activities. A place of innate natural charm, it became lush and luxurious under the stress So when the Atlantic seaboard was hermetically sealed by law, nature provided an outlet, or inlet rather, in Long Island. In all great arid spots nature provides an oasis. For middle age is certainly creeping up on Mr.
And it might almostīe said that "The Great Gatsby" is the last stage of illusion in this absurd chase. To use a phrase of Burton Rascoe's-his hurt romantics are still seeking that other side of paradise. But marriage has not changed their world, only the locale of their parties. Now he has said farewell to his flappers-perhaps because they have grown up-and is writing of the Short stories, novels and a play have followed with consistent regularity since heīecame the philosopher of the flapper with "This Side of Paradise." With shrewd observation and humor he reflected the Jazz Age. Of the many new writers that sprang into notice with the advent of the post-war period, Scott Fitzgerald has remained the steadiest performer and the most entertaining. ApScott Fitzgerald Looks Into Middle Age By EDWIN CLARK
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