Despite the time he spent in Europe, Fitzgerald remained an intensely American author. I am just like you now. Fitzgerald's magazine fiction represented the author's major source of income for most of his career. He published over 160 stories in his lifetime. But he viewed his commercial stories as a drain on the creative energy he required for his novels.
All fine prose is based on the verbs carrying the sentences.
Keats had an enduring influence on Fitzgerald's creative sensibility. Part of what F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for is his love of America. This quotation reflects that love and his strong sense of national pride. Each of these three events made a great impression upon me. When Fitzgerald prepared Tales of the Jazz Age, his second short story collection, he added an annotated table of contents in which he commented on each story.