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The Rich Boy

The Rich Boy

Rivas, Anton
Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 197902300X
ISBN13: 9781979023009
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 20 2017
Pages: 62
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
'The Rich Boy' is a key document for understanding Fitzgerald's much-discussed and much-misunderstood attitudes toward the rich. He was not an envious admirer of the rich, who believed they possessed a special quality. In 1938 he observed: 'That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton...I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.' He knew the lives of the rich had great possibilities, but he recognized that they mostly failed to use those possibilities fully. He also perceived that money corrupts the will to excellence. Believing that work is the only dignity, he condemned the self-indulgent rich for wasting their freedom.

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