I really enjoyed "My Generation". It is this kind of essay that I enjoy from him. He has an insight and a way of getting to the heart of a topic. It makes me sad that he died so young and that we were not able to see how he would have seen the world as he aged. It think it would have been interesting on how he would have dealt with aging and how society treats you. Also how he saw the younger generations. What would he have thought of the hippies and free love? Oh well.
"The Death of my Father" was good, but ultimately an unfinished piece. I find it interesting more in the context of the lack of talk from him regarding his family. He seems to keep that part out of his fiction, where everything else seems to be free game for his stories. I wish there was more. I am sure the death of his sisters (even if he never knew them) had to play a role in his young life. I mean his mother had to be a wreck and I am sure that effected how he was raised.
So, shifting gears... My plan is to finish all the works of Fitzgerald. I am so slow on getting through these, and I don't want to kid myself that I can race right through them, although if I had a month or two of isolation I am sure it would be done. I have created some clusters of stories that I will be tackling. I broke them down by year published and then on cluster of Scott and Zelda works (which I will read last). Right now I am finishing the post 1940 published work. I think this will be the most difficult as they were not published during his life for various reasons, like being unfinished or not very good. They can range from a any period in his life, so there is not a lot of continuity to them. The ones I have left are:
After 1940I have about 100 left- Wow that seems high, but that' s what the numbers say.
The Woman From Twenty One
The Kingdom in the Dark
On an Ocean Wave
Discard
Last Kiss
Dearly Beloved
Lo, the Poor Peacock
On Your Own
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