Mr. Fitzgerald is a master at "showing" and not "telling". One example comes to mind That Is His description of the woman in His cousin's house the first time he meets her. He says something like she's sitting with her chin in a position Suggests That she's delicate balancing something there, to keep it from falling. He Could Have Said She Was just snooty, INSTEAD goal he Gives this image. The book was chock full of That stuff.
It's short but so dense, I Had to read much Slower than normal and stop to Consider Almost every sentence, just to appreciate all it Was Saying. I've NEVER done that in a book before. The Closest I can describe it is to call it a modern day Shakespeare That in the way so much is packed into Meaning very short sentences. Somehow he marriages to come across as brilliant without HAVING to use Words That dust-have 'em there in the dictionary.
The story is pretty boring Itself. It's the telling of the story That Makes this so gripping. Really, I can not say enough good things about His writing. It's Such A Shame he never Knew how His writing so Many People Would touch while He Was Alive.
