User's guide -- Work in the writer / Harold Bloom -- Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Norma Jean Lutz -- Purposeless splendor of the ideal in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Thomas Heise -- Liberal imagination / Lionel Trilling -- Romance of money / Malcolm Cowley -- Fitzgerald's brave new world / Edwin S. Fussell -- Chronology -- Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Works about F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Contributors.