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    Born in 1896 into a fairly wealthy family, F(rancis). Scott (Key) Fitzgerald is known as one of America's most iconic authors. Fitzgerald's fame grew through his numerous publications in Saturday Evening Post, which was at the time the most widely read magazine in the United States with 2,750,000 copies sent per week (Bruccoli 15), and Fitzgerald published the majority of his short stories in the magazine. He had many major themes throughout his works, whether novels, short stories, essays, or short stories, each having at least one of his common themes. They are: the lure of wealth, aspiration, changeability and loss, the rich are different from the average person, love, death, the American myth of success, war, selfishness and solitude. Fitzgerald also has a writing style that readers will immediately know is his if they have read any other of his works. His style is joyful, witty, lyrical and colorful, which is a very easy to see aspect of his writing, as well as a defining element of it. Not only does Fitzgerald have a unique style, but he is invested in his stories. Her best-known short stories are “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “Babylon Revisited,” and “Bernice Bobs Her Hair.” In all this he puts a semblance of his own life; whether it be with his wife, himself or simply with the way the world around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” presents Fitzgerald’s themes of wealth and selfishness. Not only are Fitzgerald's usual themes present, but this story also parallels his life in a smaller sense. Fitzgerald and the main characters of “Diamond” start off very well. The Washington patriarch is introduced by Percy Washington to John Unger as "'by far the richest man in the world'"... middle of paper ...... the omens who cut his hair on did for different reasons. Bernice was narcissistic, while Jo did it altruistically, for the sake of women's society, not because she wanted to. In short, F. Scott Fitzgerald's most prolific short stories paralleled his life and the changing social structures of the world in which he lived. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” discusses the change in the air in women's social status. “Babylon Revisited” is about Fitzgerald and his wife losing a child due to their incompetence in parenting skills, paralleling Charlie Wales' situation. And “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” shows how Fitzgerald was once very rich and lost everything, just like the main family in the story, the Washingtons. In conclusion, he places himself in his own writings in such a way that readers can often glean some semblance of his life in the twenties and thirties..