The Washington Post, December 20th, 1990
About a dozen miles north of Washington's sparkling monuments, which celebrate American successes, one of America's saddest stories is commemorated by this inscription: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The last words of "The Great Gatsby" mark the grave, in Rockville, of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died 50 years ago, Dec. 21, 1940. He was emblematic of an era, and his life is a cautionary tale for this one. Success ("This Side of Paradise") came to him suddenly, at 23. At 28, he published "Gatsby." At 43, he was dead. (In 1919, Gatsby was poor. In ...
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