whatever dreams, ideals, hard work, order, civilized past, personal choices, best intentions, and various other controls, much of life, society today, and human behavior is basically and recurringly random, arbitrary, ironic, ambiguous, crazy, irrational, and plain absurd. This fact explains and illuminates much of what happens in human experience during a typical day or in the course of a lifetime. This says much about overall process. For more on the topic, Fitzgerald’s novel exemplifies and explicates all of the above.