John Unger belongs to the middle class, but he is surrounded by many people who are economically superior to him. The richer a fella is, the better I like him” (Fitzgerald 77). John’s response to this thought, although he is doubtful a diamond that large can truly exist, is, “I like very rich people. On the train ride to Montana, where Percy’s home is located, Percy confides in John that his father is “by far the richest man in the world” and the owner of “a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel” (Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 77). John is studying at a private boarding school near Boston when he meets a fellow student named Percy Washington, who he spends the summer after his sophomore year with. First published in 1922, “The Diamond As Big As The Ritz” is the story of John Unger from Hades, Mississippi.
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