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Title: Fighting Italian Taxi Cab Drivers
Review: Dick Diver fist fights with insolent Italian cab drivers, calls an arabian princess a "spic," screws around with a hot young actress, insults dull society women, humiliates himself, destroys his life with affectation and affection that is unparallelled in literature. He is a Modern version of Pechorin from Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time." Nicole Diver, his wife, is also well drawn by the master of the Jazz Age, but Dick's character study is the goldmine of this novel. I feel that the "madness" aspect of the novel is the dullest part, what Fitzgerald is truly interested in is catalogueing the slow unraveling of a talented, egotistical, alcoholic man, i.e. himself.
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