It&#x27;s interesting how this article conflicts the narrative (and indeed, Fitzgerald&#x27;s own narrative) about his life.  The narrative was that they lived fabulously until the simultaneous stresses of the the stock market crash and Zelda&#x27;s mental breakdown in 1929.  Turns out that at least from an <i>income</i> perspective, he was doing quite well up until the moment he died.  But Zelda&#x27;s healthcare costs ruined him anyway, and he cognitively backed himself in a corner in terms of making adjustments.<p>It reminds me of a quote from another famous author, one Charles Dickens:<p><i>&quot;Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.&quot;</i>