Raymond Carver vs. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Raymond Carver
1938 – 1988
Raymond Clevie Carver Jr. was an American short story writer and poet. He published his first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, in 1976.
"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate onc…"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896 – 1940
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer associated with the Jazz Age, best known for his novel The Great Gatsby, which critiques the American Dream. His work captured the excesses and disillusionment of 1920s America.
"I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild sus…"