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, …showed first 75 words of 1380 total…

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