Depressing can have a reason, I said ridiculous and depressing because I think the plot is ridiculous.
IIRC, build an estate and hold parties hoping someone who lives nearby will show up? As opposed to knocking on the door, a letter, mutual acquaintance.
He saw it as a lifestyle.
Yes, and great art can have this as an intention.
However, where's the great novel writer who depicts the uber wealthy as wholesome, happy people I ask you?
Overwhelmingly the left-centered artist depicts the upper class in a horrid way and then their socialist buddies promote the false image to a gullible public, even compelling young minds to soak up the twisted point of view at a young age in lit class. Didn't The League of American Writers (commie group), in fact, have this as its aim back in the 30's?