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Trilety Wade's avatar

I enjoyed this and would love a writing experiment where you wrote about one of these rise and downfall events! Or someone with your thoughtfulness, curiosity, and depth / could upend the genre altogether, a brand new gatsby

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Charles Schifano's avatar

Thank you for the comment and your thoughts, Trilety. Your comment prompted me to think of examples and the first one that comes to mind is James Cain's Mildred Pierce. At first glance it doesn't fit the model because the scope is much smaller—a few pie stores, if I remember correctly—but the drama, and the trajectory, is similar.

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Trilety Wade's avatar

Ah a novel I've never read! Intriguing, thank you!

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John P. Weiss's avatar

I remember the old TV show with Robin Leach about the rich and famous. Regular folks enjoy viewing the opulence, but also take solace in seeing the fall of the rich and shameless. My experience is that there are good folks and bad in every socioeconomic level. But like crabs in a pot, if one almost succeeds in climbing in, we seem to delight in dragging it back in with the rest of us.

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Charles Schifano's avatar

In my memory that famous voice contains a good bit of irony, though I don't know if that's what most viewers experienced. I like your crab analogy, especially because I imagine that climbing out of the pot as a crab comes with its own downside. Thank you for the comment, John.

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