picted," James says. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gats(1925), bond traders fre- quently appear-but "we never under-stand what they do or how they do it."
The main reason for the decline of the financier novel, however, lies elsewhere. "The classic format was concerned with change and with the decline of an old standard of behavior," James says. "The fi-nancier becomes a scourge to punish the greed and immorality of an old elite that can no longer remain...