In her Weekend Essay (“The Careless Age”, April 5) about how F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby foretold Trump’s America, Sarah Churchwell writes the most gorgeous and germane two sentences that sum up the novel, and also what is “ceaselessly” unfolding in my country today: “Carelessness, in Fitzgerald’s vision, is more than negligence — it is a way of wielding power. It’s the certainty that the world exists to absorb your damage.”
May the rest of us not have to absorb much more these days.
Michele Perez
Fort Lee, NJ, US
