Fitzgerald wrote the short story —actually a novella— for his own experimentation with writing fantasies. As it turned out, this genre not as popular as realistic fiction. Nevertheless, part from the extreme extravagances —which defy the suspension of disbelief— Fitzgerald’s style is quite obvious. John Unger, the protagonist of the story, comes from a town called Hades, which in Greek mythology refers to the realm of the dead. For young Unger, the story turns into a round-trip ticket: from Hades, to pseudo-glory, and back to Hades. Much like Ulysses, Tiresias (the old Greek seer), Orpheus, Aeneas, and a few other heroes, he escapes from Hell. Fitzgerald’s experimentation takes him from Hades, to Utopia, to Eden: arguably not out of place, readers will find an allusion to the fall of man: “His was a great sin who first invented consciousness.”