Me too: "....reading has become my escape from depression," and revisiting old books, really old, the kind that cost 45 cents per paperback, e.g. Beverly Cleary's "Fifteen" - when the world was so simple, and authors did not go out on a limb or take big risks. Thank you for your thoughtful impressions of Fitzgerald novels. I always thought Gatsby was a loser, with his obsession over the unworthy Daisy, and Romeo and Juliet were fools, and Isabel Archer (a Henry James heroine) was the greatest disappointment ever. Reading could be so frustrating! And yet I never quit reading. Now I'm hunting for happy endings within the realm of believable (realistic) fiction. Let me know if you find anything. And may you stay out of that rut of depression!