John t unger biography of donald

1922 novella by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age.

Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915.^[1]

Plot summary

John T. Unger, a teenager from the Mississippi River town of Hades, is sent to a private boarding school near Boston.

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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. He rarely speaks, and when he does, it is only to Unger.

Percy invites Unger to his home for the summer, the location of which he only states as being "in the West." Unger accep