The first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene.

• 是自亨利·詹姆斯以来美国小说迈出的第一步,因为菲茨杰拉德在其中描写了宏大、熙攘、轻率和寻欢,凡此种种,曾风靡一时。