Showing posts with label 1900's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1900's. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

Hemingway and Fitzgerald

It's exciting to be in familiar territory. Fitzgerald was required reading in 8th or 9th grade. Our class stumbled through The Great Gatsby as a group but I gripped onto the story for the frailty and imperfections of the characters and the gorgeous angular details of the Art Deco era. Hemingway and I started our affair in high school as well. Hills Like White Elephants was the beginning of it all. I love his raunchy manly sensibilities and the way he shows non-traditional couples reacting to tragedies of love.

There's talk of these two fellahs being one of the original bromances. I guess they were friends. Met in 1925, I hear. But I'm not sure how tight they were. Plato and Socrates tight? The photo above looks pretty photo-shopped to me. I don't know.

The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, was recently captured on stage in an off-broadway production called "This Side of Paradise". (I didn't see this production, but I was lucky enough to hear a little about it while it was up. One of my best friends from high school played Young Zelda: Rachel Moulton. She's fantastic. That's her and Fitzy to the left there. I'm so proud of her.)