Dec 24, 2009

Crazy Sunday | Critical Overview

‘‘Crazy Sunday’’ was included in the last collection of Fitzgerald’s short stories published in his lifetime, Taps at Reveille. Unfortunately, by the time the book was published in 1935, few reviewers were interested in Fitzgerald’s work. Those who were interested noticed the changes taking place in Fitzgerald’s maturing fiction. In F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Man and His Work, Alfred Kazin quotes a New Republic review by T. S. Mathews: ‘‘The yearning toward maturity is even more noticeable in some of these short stories than it is in his novels.’’...