In the former, Dexter Green is the protagonist of the story. He is with Anson after the latter had learned of Paula's death in childbirth, and Anson, "for the first time in their friendship," says nothing of how he feels, shows no sign of emotion. Fitzgerald uses narrative techniques to show Washington as a god-like figure. Given the monetary value of the world's largest diamonds, estimate how much a diamond as large as this fictional diamond would be worth. In both cases, the protagonist is a naive outsider who must learn some moral truth that has, as its basis, the politics of wealth. This perversion may be an allusion to Moses who in devotion goes up onto the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments. Discussions of expatriate United States writers of the early twentieth century generally include both Richard Wright and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wright began to write seriously in 1925, the same year that Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby. One can imagine that John T. Unger would have been a big fan of the television show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Culture and race are typically seen to have produced Wright's feelings of alienation whereas social and economic class and culture are thought to have motivated Fitzgerald's views. The difficulty of his task is compounded by Marion Peters's dislike and distrust of him. It is easy to guess the priorities of a school that would elevate the mythical King Midas to sainthood and the priorities of the parents whose sons attend it. The combination of national isolation and restrictions of personal freedom caused many artists of the time to leave the country and spend time in Europe, most notably in Paris, where Fitzgerald himself lived while writing The Great Gatsby. As quoted in F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time: A Miscellany, a 1922 article in the Minneapolis Journal, entitled "The Future of Fitzgerald," states, "‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’ is not perfect, but it is remarkable" and goes on to assert that Fitzgerald's strength lies in these imaginative types of stories, rather than in realism. The Fred Daniels god-like image does, in certain contexts, resemble the Braddock Washington god-like image in Fitzgerald's story. In the following essay, Rand compares F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and Richard Wright's "The Man Who Lived Underground" and discusses the concept of being an outsider that permeates the stories. Even when speaking to God, Braddock is not humble; instead, he speaks with "a quality of monstrous condescension." They react as expected: "A wild yell of jubilation went up suddenly from two dozen throats and a pandemonium of joy ensued. For example, the truth of Jake Barnes' true bitterness goes unseen to his fellow expatriates—most notably, Brett—who see him as a happy friend to everyone in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. To protect himself, he tells his slaves that he discovered an enormous rhinestone mine. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald The Diamond as Big as the Ritz JOHN T. UNGER came from a family that had been well known in Hades−−a small town on the Mississippi River−−for several generations. In addition to the uncompleted novel The Last Tycoon (1941), Fitzgerald wrote a series of stories for Esquire about a Hollywood hack writer, Pat Hobby. The stories testify to his abiding faith in the possibility, somewhere, of living a graceful life. He repeatedly brings up the Schnlitzer-Murphys, a very wealthy family he visited one Easter, describing their jewels and quoting Mr. Schnlitzer-Murphy. First is that Unger's family enjoys a certain amount of social status in the town of Hades. Basil not only endures but even learns from each of his painful experiences: upstaging by Hubert Blair, that paragon of youthful charm and virtuosity; rejection by Imogene Bissel, a juvenile femme fatale; and, more seriously, ostracism and debasement by his prep-school classmates. Three were later revised for publication in H. L. Mencken's Smart Set, two were incorporated into Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, and one, "Tarquin of Cheapside" (Nassau Literary Magazine, April 1917), later appeared in his second collection of stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). The conflict within Fitzgerald between rival claims—aristocracy of the spirit versus aristocracy of wealth—is omnipresent throughout the stories. Fitzgerald is compared to Ernest Hemingway; Wright is discussed in terms of Langston Hughes or Dostoevsky. When his poor grades at St. Paul Academy necessitated his changing schools, he was enrolled at the Newman School in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he could indulge his taste for the theater with a few thrilling trips to New York City, less than an hour away. Whether interpreted as political allegory or cautionary fable, the story clearly reflects a discontent with the American philosophy of life that was shared by many artists during this time; many left the country to live in Europe. His children's visitors must be killed when their visit is over—certainly an impediment to their forming lasting friendships outside the family. She gradually grows numb with satiety (in Fitzgerald's day promiscuity usually meant only kissing), until a kiss fails to arouse her. Other references to historical and mythical figures abound. In this program, adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," John, the owner of Kizzy's hamburger stand, tells one of his regular customers about a man with "a diamond as big as the Ritz Hotel." That kind of conclusion is simplistic; the truth of the relationship cannot really be known. Characters in the story repeatedly make reference to how hot it is in Hades ("Is it hot enough for you down there? There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.". Fitzgerald is most successful when his central character is both a participant and an observer of the action, weakest when the protagonist is simply a member of the upper class or an outsider. In telling the Washington family history, Fitzgerald refers to several actual historical figures. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. More than once, the Washingtons' property is referred to as "El Dorado," the name of a mythical South American kingdom fabled to be rich with gold. The dissipation of which they are unaware in themselves they notice in their doubles. Harry's "cold lips" kissing her reinforce the pervasive, unrelenting chill. Fitzgerald had a heart attack in November 1940 and died on 21 December after suffering a second attack. Fitzgerald creates two outsiders, John Unger and Braddock Washington, made such by the corrupting influence of excessive wealth. John T. Unger tells Kismine that it is impossible to be both free and poor. America had sloughed off its past and headed for, as Fitzgerald said, the "greatest, gaudiest spree in history"; when it was over, he realized that the nation had been living on borrowed time, "a short and precious time—for when the mist rises … one finds that the very best is over.". In the early months of 1920, soon after the publication of This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald wrote one of his best stories, "May Day," which was rejected by the Post but admired by Mencken, who included it in the July 1920 Smart Set. Fitzgerald's story opens with John T. Unger, who "came from a family that had been well known in Hades—a small town on the Mississippi River—for several generations." The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 became the first legislation to restrict immigration into the country, greatly reducing the number of immigrants allowed into the United States each year (immigration was even further restricted by the Immigration Act of 1924). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Unger's mixed reaction reflects the higher moral, and less racist, character of his family clashing with his desire as an outsider to fit in with the Washingtons. As the end of summer nears, John and Kismine decide that they will elope the following June, since her father will never allow her to marry someone from John's lowly social and financial status. At the time of its release, critics were not fond of the book, feeling that it was a less successful treatment of the same themes explored in The Great Gatsby. Washington's country has its own anti-aircraft defense system, political prisoners (the aviators), even the capability to start war. She no longer has the capacity to feel anything for anyone. The popularity of his work declined considerably during the depression, in part because people struggling to make ends meet found these types of stories less entertaining and less relevant to their own lives. This country even has its own languages; the Washingtons' slaves, so long isolated from the rest of the world, have developed their own extreme version of their original southern dialect, which only they can understand. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” is a story full of symbolic and allegorical touches, many of them dealing with the soul-destroying potential of wealth. Wright was a self-educated man, widely read, and it is improbable that he did not read Fitzgerald's work. Mr. Washington tells John their crime: they are aviators who accidentally discovered the diamond mine and now must be prevented, at all costs, from revealing the Washingtons' secret. So after gathering a workforce of black slaves, whom he fooled into believing that the South won the Civil War, he set out to sell his diamonds in secret to assorted kings, princes, and other dignitaries. The story is about his exploration of the problems of character and responsibility, particularly the power of one's past to shape and determine his future. 2021 . The most extreme example of this is his continued use of slave labor. 230-45. He had traded his first youth for strength and carved success out of despair. The story culminates, after Miles's death, in the circuslike parade Joel observes at the theater as he waits for Stella. For Fitzgerald she represented the glamour of the unattainable, and he fell deeply in love with her. The author in "Author's House" surveys his youth, his illness, his mistakes and failures, and waits for death. In the following essay, Prigozy gives a critical analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's work. Although the two concepts intertwine in both stories, the source of corruption in each case is wealth with its attendant power. This view of Fitzgerald was to characterize critical judgments of his fiction, particularly in relation to the short stories, from the 1920s to the present day. Yet the action, which departs wildly from probability, is so rooted in the familiar, recognizable patterns of human behavior that after the initial shock has receded and the reader has accepted the fanciful premise, he is forced to make invidious comparisons between the rise of American big business in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the growth of Braddock Washington's fortune. Fitzgerald first rose to fame with his stories about flappers, and stories such as "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Offshore Pirate," and "The Jelly-Bean" are still reader favorites. (It appeared in the September 1919 Smart Set and was later incorporated into This Side of Paradise.) Most of the stories are brief; the themes are suggested or superficially explored. Like Bigger Thomas [Native Son] before him, he is the result of a complicated battle among the forces of naturalism, Marxism, Freudianism, and existentialism. By four in the morning, the planes have destroyed much of the Washingtons' property. However, the fact that she continues to invite guests to the Washington home, knowing their ultimate fate, and her great disappointment that the war ended before she could fulfill her "canteen expert" dream, indicate that Jasmine has not fully grasped the concept of compassion. After The Great Gatsby, the quality of Fitzgerald's work was erratic, affected by his continued drinking and his stressful relationship with Zelda. As is often the case in his work, Fitzgerald seems to be cautioning against the very vices to which he had fallen victim. From there John goes on to the Washingtons' home, stopping on his way at the village of Fish, inhabited only by twelve men. Even in the more somber stories, manners and milieu are as important as the plot or the characters. Hildegarde Hawthorne of the New York Times Book Review, writes that "There is plenty of variety in the new collection, more than in the Flappers and Philosophers. However, the literary works of Wright and Fitzgerald are rarely compared directly. The major subjects of Fitzgerald's short stories are the sadness of the unfulfilled life and the unrecapturable moment of bliss, the romantic imagination and its power to transform reality, love, courtship and marriage, problems in marriage, the plight of the poor outsider seeking to enter the world of the very rich, the cruelty of beautiful and rich young women, the generation gap, the moral life, manners and mores of class society, heroism in ordinary life, emotional bankruptcy and the drift to death, the South and its legendary past, and the meaning of America in the lives of individuals and in modern history. Although commercial writing is, he admitted in a 1940 letter to Zelda, a "definite trick," he felt he brought to it the "intelligence and good writing" to which a sensitive editor like Lorimer might respond. A week later he married Zelda Sayre. Percy, John's friend from school, is much like the rest of the Washingtons: shallow, boastful, and arrogant. These respective literary turning points then lead to an inevitable confrontation of an outsider with society, bringing Braddock Washington and Fred Daniels to the same end as Jay Gatsby and Bigger Thomas. After breakfast, John takes a walk on the property and runs into Kismine, Percy's younger sister, with whom he falls in love instantly. Also during this time, he wrote the first draft of his first novel, This Side of Paradise. Among the early stories, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is notable not only because of the fine writing and historical resonances but because Fitzgerald's gift for fantasy is at its best. In Montana the Washington forebears (descended from George Washington, we are told) discovered an enormous diamond—a diamond, in fact, quite as large as the fabled Ritz-Carlton Hotel (probably the original Ritz-Carlton in Boston, Massachusetts, which set a … One of Fitzgerald's most effective and popular stories in which the primary emphasis is on social criticism is "May Day," yet he never wrote another story quite like it. Joel can never really matter to them. The conclusion is that freedom is not a function of wealth or poverty at all, but rather a state of mind, a state of mind which, with their dependence on wealth and status, none of these characters has achieved. But Rudolph's life is just beginning, and his imagination restores him by providing an outlet for his buried life. In "The Adjuster" (Redbook, September 1925; collected in All the Sad Young Men) Fitzgerald combines a realistic surface, homiletic intention, and supernatural agent in a unique, yet not entirely successful, mixture. (1922) Tales of the Jazz Age. Short Stories for Students. His son Braddock continued his work, and when he had amassed enough wealth to keep his family living in luxury for generations, he sealed up the mine. John quotes statistics about the number of millionaires in the United States, prattles on about the jewels owned by the Schnlitzer-Murphys, and sets aside his few reservations about the morals of the Washingtons when he sees their opulent home. Fitzgerald's relationship with his wife Zelda was a tempestuous one, even during their courtship, and the combination of their extravagant lifestyle, Fitzgerald's heavy drinking, and Zelda's gradually deteriorating mental health took a toll on their marriage. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Summary & Study Guide The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Summary F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” first appeared in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set, a popular magazine of the 1920s. The central action is the transformation of a socially inept, unpopular girl, Bernice, into a much-sought-after, socially sophisticated "flapper." In "Winter Dreams" Dexter Green is a golf caddy at the luxurious club patronized by the wealthy inhabitants of Sherry Island. This collection of confessional essays, letters, and journal entries describes Fitzgerald's gradual decline, both emotionally and professionally. "Sentiment—and the Use of Rouge" (Nassau Literary Magazine, June 1917) contrasts the new, relaxed wartime morality with older, tested values. The most vivid scene occurs at the end, where in one horrifying moment the Kellys recognize themselves in the other couple. ‘I'm glad. In this Dorian Graylike situation a young couple, Nicole and Nelson Kelly, on the path of dissolution and degeneration, see themselves at crucial moments in the process of their decay in the guise of another young couple. This book is considered by many to be the definitive biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, written by Fitzgerald expert Bruccoli and Fitzgerald's own daughter. Moon is a strange amalgam, half-psychiatrist, half fortune-teller. During the next few years the Fitzgeralds moved frequently: from Great Neck to France, to Italy, to Delaware, and even to Hollywood, where Fitzgerald was invited to try his hand at screenwriting. It is a tale of a young boy's fears and passions in an environment of rugged austerity and grim religiosity, ending with a lie in the confessional booth. High living and materialism was to be short lived, however, as in a few years the stock market would crash and plunge the United States into the Great Depression. Colonel makes his way back to his camp, gathers his men, and brings them back to the mountainside to start digging near where he encountered the squirrel and the giant diamond. But Clay does not understand. In a short, fervent speech she confesses to Bernice her abhorrence of society's hypocritical expectations of women and exhorts her cousin to relinquish the morals of a defunct generation. It was there, from 1909 to 1911, that he published his first short stories, in the school literary magazine Now and Then. Its original title was "The Diamond in the Sky" When it became part of Fitzgerald's short story collection, Tales of the Jazz Age, he said in the introduction that he had written it for his own amusement because he loved luxury His most cherished memories of the St. Paul experience were those connected with the stage. She is Sally Carrol in "The Ice Palace" (Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1920; collected in Flappers and Philosophers,’ 1920), the heroine of "The Last of the Belles" (Saturday Evening Post, 2 March 1929; collected in Taps at Reveille, 1935), and Jonquil in "The Sensible Thing" (Liberty, 5 July 1924; collected in All the Sad Young Men, 1926); she is the model for most of the women in his stories and novels until the late 1930s. These distorted, corrupted images of religion—apostles with no religion, a Heaven one can enter living but must die to leave, praying without supplication but with arrogance—are symbolic of the way the Washingtons' morals and values have become twisted by their own greed and materialism. Washington's idea of how life for himself and his family should progress is summed up in the design of his own golf course: "It's all a green, you see—no fairway, no rough, no hazards.". In her acceptance of conventional advice by her parents, and, indeed, following her own convictions, Jonquil turned away George because he was not financially ready for her at the moment when they realized how much they were in love. He listened attentively to the tales his father, Edward Fitzgerald, told of the family's Confederate past. INTRODUCTION Both protagonists are, therefore, outsiders who must learn, but Wright's story differs in that his protagonist must, as an outsider, look back and become aware of the corruption in the society he has left. She is proud of but cannot understand her son's success, for she associates "authors" only with Mrs. Humphry Ward, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edna Ferber, and especially the sentimental poetesses Alice and Phoebe Cary. Just as Fitzgerald used the American West in "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" to explore American values in the context of American history, Fitzgerald used the American South to express the need for tradition, as embodied in his own father's values and manners. The true nature of an outsider may not be known to the group. English Title: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Japanese Title: リッツ・ホテルくらいに大きなダイヤモンド Romanized Title: Rittsu Hoteru Kurai ni Ookina Daiyamondo Troupe: Cosmos Year: 2019 Performances: Bow Hall, 09/05 - 09/16 Based On: the novella of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald Author / Director: Kimura Shinji Composer: Hasegawa Masahiro, Teshima Kyouko The Washingtons are isolated not only geographically, but also by their wealth. One of the soldiers, Carrol Key, whose name suggests that "in his veins, however thinly diluted by generations of degeneration, ran blood of some potentiality," is accidentally killed when he is swept up in the embattled crowd determined to put the Bolsheviks to rout. Typically, for instance, the corrupt underworld is dark, and the pure world above displays a bright light. In the latter, Anson Hunter is "the rich boy," the subject of the story, which is narrated by an observer-participant in the action, a friend of Anson's who all his life has lived among the rich. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz 1 have it changed to something with a little more push and verve about it, such as "Hades Your Opportunity," or else a plain "Welcome" sign … After the academy, he went on to the Newman School in Hackensack, New Jersey, a Catholic prep school. ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories. Well-dressed and reserved, Percy has little to say about his home or family, until he invites John to spend the summer at his family's home in Montana. In an effort to get out of debt, Fitzgerald wrote dozens of short stories during this time, including many that were not up to the quality of his former work. Brooding over the diamonds on the floor was like looking up into a sky full of restless stars; then the illusion turned into its opposite: he was high up in the air looking down at the twinkling lights of a sprawling city. He worked on them as carefully as he could, often sending Arnold Gingrich telegrams requesting minor revisions even after a story had been set in print. Nevertheless, the awakening of Daniels and John Unger to the truth of their societies is similar. He difinitely read Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, and Edgar Allan Poe. In "News of Paris," a late sketch (probably written in 1940, published posthumously in Furioso in 1947), merely two lines, "It was quiet in the room. Fitzgerald is one of the most widely recognized names in American literature, yet the legend he so carefully cultivated has, paradoxically, tended to obscure the writer as well as his work. "Crazy Sunday" is a haunting vignette of Hollywood, and it is measure of Fitzgerald's artistry that he succeeds despite the flaw of conflicting centers of interest, Miles and Joel. Fitzgerald may be seen as reflecting the modernism of the Jazz Age, whereas Wright's anti-hero Daniels may be seen to nudge his story into post-modernism. HISTORICAL CONTEXT Josephine Perry is an embodiment of the alluring yet cruel flapper, and Fitzgerald manages to convey the tragedy inherent in a totally self-absorbed life. This technique is illustrated most strongly in Wright's oxymoron: "dark sunshine", Fitzgerald's ironic use of "Hades" for the name of Unger's home town and "Washington" for the name of the most corrupt and immoral—and richest—man in the world. For instance, Abraham Chapman notes: "His first writing was published in the Communist press, and for a while he was Harlem correspondent of The Daily Worker." The music ended and a man recited news events. He was survived by his wife Zelda, who died in a hospital fire in 1948, and his daughter Scottie, who died in 1986. ." Zelda was the most popular, daring, and vital girl in Montgomery. Daniels' rejection of corrupt, aboveground values and Washington's rejection of the moral values of society make both characters appear god-like in a similar way and deliver the same moral message to the reader. FURTHER RE…, Horacio Quiroga Dr. Basil's fatal flaw is his loquacity; he cannot resist pointing out his own superiority and his fellows' deficiencies. John and Kismine waken Jasmine, Kismine's older sister, and the three of them flee to a wooded area where they watch the battle. Why does Braddock Washington imprison rather than kill the aviators? Smith, Ellison D., "‘Shut the Door’: A Senator Speaks for Immigration Restriction," in Congressional Record, Vol. Zelda wrote many poignant letters after her illness, and, indeed, she has emerged as a pitiable figure. Such is the position of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby and Bigger Thomas in Native Son. Braddock Washington offers up his own blatant racism when he explains to John that he discontinued private baths for his slaves because "Water is not good for certain races—except as a beverage. Your IP: 103.113.24.101 "The Diamond As Big As the Ritz," published by Fitzgerald in 1922, and "The Man Who Lived Underground," first published by Wright in 1942, show similarities in form, imagery, and theme, all related to the same concept of the outsider. The symbolism parallels Fitzgerald's depiction of the boys ascending above the town of Fish and being lifted over the rock barricade before entering the valley of the estate. After a whirlwind descent on New York City, they retreated to Westport, Connecticut, and then to Europe. Dawn had come up in Columbus Circle, magical, breathless dawn, silhouetting the great statue of the immortal Christopher, and mingling in a curious and uncanny manner with the fading yellow electric light inside.". Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. SOURCES Fitzgerald handles Basil's anguish and humiliation by bringing to bear the perspective of the adult on the loneliness and misery of an adolescent. While waiting, he sold six stories to the Smart Set for $215 in October and two more in November for $300. Both stories present protagonists who enter worlds different from their own. This volume, too, was relatively successful, considering that short-story collections rarely sold well. The warm summer is over; it is November and time for the serious business of life. Wright uses laughter, joy and song ironically in the story to show ignorance or a gradual sense of awakening. One of the most significant results of Fitzgerald's military service was that, while stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with Zelda Sayre, the daughter of a judge on the Alabama Supreme Court. The pressure of Rudolph's environment has driven him onto the "lonely secret road of adolescence." In 1898, the family moved to upstate New York, where Edward worked as a salesman for Procter and Gamble. Pat is an incompetent, an alcoholic, a petty blackmailer, a dreamer, a would-be lecher, a leech, a whiner, a conniver, a thief, a scab, a coward, an informer, an eternal outsider. Back in 1922, nobody had Google Maps. While most people equate greater wealth with greater freedom, this is not the case in "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz." It follows them through the pleasure haunts of Europe, where nature is majestic and threatening; and in a powerful storm the two supernatural elements, the other couple and the malign forces which seem to have been released into the universe, meet—and in their meeting, the Kellys realize at last that they have lost not only "peace and love and health" but their souls as well. And on the side of his mother, Molly McQuillan, although the ancestry was not as patrician as his father's, he could point to the vitality of his grandfather, an Irishman who epitomized the self-made American merchants in the decades immediately following the Civil War. He never lost his interest in sports, but knowing that he could not succeed as a participant, he sought other roads to success and the popularity he would always crave. This instance signifies an important turning point in the story. I'll enlarge your place down there and feed and clothe you the rest of your lives. The collection sold 15,325 copies by 1922, with six printings. When they hear that one of their number managed to escape, they dance and sing in celebration. The narrator is from the West and thoroughly middle class, but he has lived among the "brothers" of the rich. CRITICISM Flaherty excoriates the English talent for prettying up reality. And here’s where things get interesting. The words themselves, for Fitzgerald, may have provided refuge from the storms of his own life. The average age for a woman to marry is twenty. In and Mr. Out serves as an ironic counterpoint to the descent of Gordon Sterrett and Carrol Key—and possibly to the struggle upward for success in America. Therefore, be sure to refer to those guidelines when editing your bibliography or works cited list. This happens when Daniels rigs the electric lighting in the cave. 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