Reasons for picking this one: one part "Calling It Quits" lyric, and three or four parts The Great Gatsby being, well, great.
Response straight after reading it: hmm, it was good, but what was it all about?
Fitzgerald's world is far removed from mine - it's a world of luxury and formality, where the codes are all different - which makes it particularly difficult to make sense of his representation of a world when that representation itself seems already self-consciously encoded. So, I like the story, in its fey satirical depiction of wealth and those who possess it, but don't feel as if I properly understand it - and it's not as human as Gatsby, which diminishes my enjoyment of it.
