a married couple would only they weren’t married, at least not to eachother. The fact that these relationships were considered wrong didn’t make them bad, these were just people following their hearts. This happens quite often today.The fact that Fitzgerald wrote about betrayal and broken love didn’t seem all that strange. It’s human nature to fall in & out of love, it’s just wrong to fall in love with someone who is married to someone else, however, this does still happen today (just watch Jerry Springer). Fitzgerald could not have made a more interesting story without all of the affairs and betrayal. We as people like to indulge ourselves in others’ misfortune and Fitzgerald captured that. ...
