Babylon Revisited

After reading through The Sun Also Rises, I found the picture painted of Paris to be much different.  There is parties and drinking throughout Paris in Hemingway's book, but the world Fitzgerald paints is far from that.  Right off the bat it explains that this is a different Paris.  The stock market crash made the expatriates scatter and the tourists simply did not have the money to go there anymore, and the people who are there are out of money as well.  It's gives an, from what I can assume, a very accurate picture of the time. The way it deteriorates from the swinging 20's to the crushed early 30's makes the event seem that much more severe.  Granted, people from Hemingway's perspective were very disillusioned, but at least they could afford booze.