The diamond as big as the Rity

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As well as some other of Fitzgerald's work, the "Diamond as Big as the Ritz" deals with a phenomenon of money, wealth and its influence on human personality and consequences in moral behaviour. In this short story he criticises the influence of wealth thorough the protagonist John Unger and his visit at Washington's chateau standing on top of a diamond hill. Although this story was first published in 1922, its message is even today, after almost 80 years, very much actual, especially, I think, in society we live in today.

For 40 years people in the Czech republic hadn't the possibility of getting very rich. Since 1989 the chances of becoming prosperous and wealthy have increased. People face problems with not only accepting rich neighbours and also with dealing with their own wealth. Today, wealthy people are sometimes strikingly deformed by their excessive property.

There are various objects of criticism in this work: the life in a southern town, the external signs of wealth and the personal defects of characters (adults as well as minors) caused by isolation in sinful luxury. The most prominent for me is the affect on personalities and the strange change of personal hierarchy of moral values.

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: An Introduction. URL: http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/diamond/index.html

1 F. Scott. Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and other stories: The diamond as big as the Ritz (New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1965) 76.

However, I liked this story, or may we call it a novella, very much, mainly due to its timelessness in criticism of obsession, visibly perceivable even today. I see a resemblance between Mr. Washington and Mr. Kozenı for his infamous excesses. He seems to be one of the characters that would perfectly suit into Fitzgerald's fiction. Everyone who is endangered by moral defeclection, due to enormous wealth, should read this novella.

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Approximate Word count = 1350
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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