What do you think of New Yorker Editor Harold Ross’s calling Joseph Mitchell’s profiles: “highlife-lowlife” pieces? The profile is that in a way. The profile on Joe Gould is a high life- lowlife due to how the profile of Gould is written, I wouldn’t say like the way Fitzgerald writes his characters but it is written with care about almost like Gould is this character in a novel that the narrator who is also in the story is like Caraway. Like when he discovered the origins of Gatsby after befriending him. T still has a low life element to it though. Since Gould is homeless and struggling to have purpose in his life other than just surviving. Gould holds a level of being a loveable character. His eccentrics are something that is enthralls the reader with interest but also with pity not only for Gould but also for Mitchell as we read on. Both of these men were at points in their lives well respected. And they have gone down the worn path of the artist. The dark rode no one wants to trod after falling. Falling from the leap of trying to articulate their genius to have something to showcase to the world be for their inevitable death.