Crazy Sunday | Public Exposure of Private Relationships
Martinelli is a Seattle-based freelance writer and editor. In this essay, Martinelli examines how the public exposure of private relationships inhibits the characters’ ability to develop a meaningful love for one another.
In ‘‘Crazy Sunday’’ F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the tale of Hollywood citizens Joel Coles, a young, up-andcoming screenwriter; Miles Calman, a powerful movie director; and Stella Walker (Calman), a beautiful, famous actress and Miles’s wife. As to be expected, the lives of famous, Hollywood inhabitants receive much more exposure and attention than an ordinary, everyday citizen. Calman and Walker are no exception. Their public actions are scrutinized, watched and reported. Yet beyond what they do in public, Calman and Walker are under a constant, inquisitive eye that desires to...
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