F. Scott Fitzgerald’s All the Sad Young Men Essays -- Fitzgerald Sad Y

F. Scott Fitzgeralds All the no-count Young hands F. Scott Fitzgeralds All the Sad Young Men was his sixth book. The treat was composed of nine short stories that had been published in magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post over the course of the previous year. The work was Fitzgeralds third short story collection and followed the Great Gatsby in progeny on the 26th of February 1926. To most, this book signaled Fitzgeralds staying power as umteen of his seniors had believed that his initial success as a writer was lucky. They did not organize Fitzgerald seriously as an author. On the whole, critics valued the work and praised some of the stories as the exceed Fitzgerald had written to date. The collection of short stories in All the Sad Young Men included The Rich Boy, Winter Dreams, The Baby Party, Absolution, Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les, The Adjuster, thermal and Cold Blood, The Sensible Thing, Gretchens Forty Winks. Of these, Absolu tion was widely considered to be the best as it was an artistic piece as opposed to the ones that the critics claimed Fitzgerald wrote to sell. Absolution is a story nigh an eleven year old boy and a priest even those who did not like this collection wrote favorably about this story. One critic said of Absolution, Yet, it must be said, immediately, that Absolution is a penetrating and profound effort to articulate life in original and dark conflict. It is simple and stripped of all artifice. The poet and humanist in Fitzgerald is in this counting of the search of a boy and an elderly priest for living truth, in the conflicting presence of the demands of daily life with its common commonness of people and trivial affairs.1 ... ...cal jazz age mold and reached new audiences. Fitzgerald alike received the common criticism that he was writing to sell many critics felt that Absolution and The Rich Boy with a few others from the option were the only works of merit. Bibliograph y ed. Bryer, Jackson R. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Critical Reception. Burt Franklin & Co., Inc. 1978. http//www.people.vcu.edu/bmangum/asymcr.html. (This site is not actually informative.) http//www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/collection/dustjackets/sadmen.html. (Dust jacket) 1 Bryer, Jackson R. Pg. 258.2 ibidem Pg. 259.3 IBID. Pg. 2534 IBID. 5 http//www.georgetown.edu/tamlit/collections/fitzwrks.htmldreams6 IBID. Pg. 260.7 IBID. Pg. 258.8 IBID. Pg. 259.9 IBID. Pg. 261.10 IBID. Pg. 261.11 IBID. Pg. 270.12 IBID. Pg. 269.