He mourns the loss of Judy. “He tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness. (Fitzgerald.V.8A). It cannot be believed that Judy has found true love with her abusive husband in Detroit despite Devin’s insistence, “I’m inclined to think she loves him.” She has lost her beauty and the fact that he will have her at all, in fact be “madly in love with her.” (Fitzgerald.VI.A). may make her very grateful; for without her beauty, she is without any sense of self. That is perhaps why the women in Detroit like her. (Fitzgerald. VI.A). In Chekov’s “THE THREE SISTERS,” thy youngest sibling, Irena, speaks of her inability to feel true love. She explains to the man she is about to marry, how she lost that capacity: IRENA: (To love you) is not within my power! I’ll be your wife, faithful and obedient; but that’s not love. I can’t help it! (Weeps.) I have never in my life been in love. Oh, how I have dreamed of love, dreamed of it for a long time now, night and day, but my soul is like a fine piano that is locked and the key is lost. (Chekov. …show more content…
Her absence of any real care for her lovers propels her on a speed boats’ reckless course, as fast as she can go, from one sensual pleasure to another. His desire to possess Judy rather than any consideration of nurturing her is a self inflicted wound. He is ultimately a selfish man, more intent on obtaining his wishes than anything else. “Dexter was at bottom hard-minded.”says his creator. (Fitzgerald.V.8A.) It is a glamorous world of beauty and excess that Fitzgerald observes and harshly criticizes, not for its lack of morality as much as for its lack of simple human feeling and the requisite human quality of caring for