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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Biographical Review, F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Rich people," said Ernest Hemingway, "are poor people with money."
It seemed to F. Scott Fitzgerald, however, that they were nothing of the
sort, and he devoted a good part of his work to proving that "rich people"
are indeed "different from you and me."

That Hemingway insisted upon reducing a complexity to some sort of
manageable simplicity was totally characteristic of him both as a person
and as a writer. And that Fitzgerald knew, perhaps all too well, that money
was a crucial element in American ...

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