What great writing (Mencken, I mean). The silly criticism of the story itself is the first paragraph, true, but then he goes on, beautifully, about Fitzgerald'

What great writing (Mencken, I mean). The silly criticism of the story itself is the first paragraph, true, but then he goes on, beautifully, about Fitzgerald's writing, in a way that you'd rarely see today. As for the characters: he's right, the author doesn't go inside their heads. In that way, it's more like a play or a movie, where we can only see them from the outside. I think that's perfectly fine. "Third person omniscient" is not the only voice a novelist can have.