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In this story, F. Scott Fitzgerald tracks the lives of two downtrodden and impoverished soldiers, a pair of star-crossed lovers from the upper crust of society and a humble, but passionately dedicated socialist trying to run a magazine. The characters' lives interweave and eventually coalesce as the sweeping events of a single day rush breathlessly by, capturing and directing them unpredictably until they arrive at a dramatic conclusion involving a death, a riot and a suicide.