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Plot summary. John T. Unger, a teenager from the Mississippi River town of Hades, is sent to a private boarding school near Boston. During the summer he visits the homes of his classmates, the majority of whom are from wealthy families. In the middle of his sophomore year, a young man named Percy Washington is placed in Unger's dorm.
‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’: plot summary. At school, a young man named John T. Unger meets an even wealthier boy, Percy Washington, who tells Unger that his father is so rich he owns a diamond that is as big as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
An immense distance under the sky crouched the village of Fish, minute, dismal, and forgotten. There were twelve men, so it was said, in the village of Fish, twelve somber and inexplicable souls who sucked a lean milk from the almost literally bare rock upon which a mysterious populatory force had begotten them.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, allegorical short story about lost illusions, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922 in Tales of the Jazz Age. John T. Unger, a student at an exclusive Massachusetts prep school, befriends Percy Washington, a new classmate who boasts that his father is “the.
15 de set. de 2014 · A Critic at Large. As Big as the Ritz: The Mythology of the Fitzgeralds. A century after their meeting, Scott and Zelda continue to inspire fascination—and new books. By Adam Gopnik....
Loosely inspired by a summer he spent as a teenager working on a ranch in Montana, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is Fitzgerald’s hallucinatory paean to the American West and all its...
26 de jul. de 2007 · The Diamond As Big As the Ritz. The story tells of John T. Unger, a teenager from the town of Hades, Mississippi, who was sent to a private boarding school in Boston. During the...
