Short Fiction · Character
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author referenced in The Torrents of Spring.
minor
Also known as Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mr. Fitzgerald, Scott Fitzgerald
First appearance: the torrents of spring
F. Scott Fitzgerald shows up with force in The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Mentioned in the author's note as having visited and sat in the fireplace, prompting a metafictional digression.
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In The Passing of a Great Race and the Making and Marring of Americans: Mentioned in the author's note as having visited and sat in the fireplace, prompting a metafictional digression. Later, in XIII: Mentioned in the…
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