More on The Great Gatsby
“Most affections conceal something eventually, even though they don’t in the beginning… She was incurably dishonest and wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage. [Nick Carraway,the narrator, says to his crush, Jordan Baker, a young flapper]: ‘You ought to be more careful.’ [Baker responds]; ‘I am careful.’ ‘No, you’re not.’ ‘Well, other people are. It takes two to make an accident.'”
Apparently, F. Scott Fitzgerald partied a lot, and it may be one reason he dropped out of college. If you are single, I think partying is okay. You can learn from people as well as from books. But Fitzgerald also worked very hard too and produced a lot of written work. His marriage was tragic, but he seemed to have been a good father to his child and a moralist.