The Baby Party
"The Baby Party" is a short story published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (February 1925).
Plot
The story centers on a young couple, John and Edith Andros. They are the parents of Ede, their two-and-half-year-old daughter. Although the prospect of having a child to continue his name and livelihood appeals to the father, the day-to-day realities soon irritate him. Early on it is apparent this creates discord among the couple.
The daughter is invited to a party, which John begrudgingly attends. After Ede injures one of the other children, he ends up in a fistfight with another father. At the close of the story, he insists his wife apologize for the mess, and he holds his daughter while she falls asleep in his arms.
In the story the children have characteristics of adults while the adults act like children. [1]
History
"The Baby Party" was written while Fitzgerald was in his infamous period of financial hardship. He was completing the final proof stage for The Great Gatsby and needed to support himself financially. It was later collected in All the Sad Young Men.
References
- ^ The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald, D Parker, 1949, The Viking Press
External links
- Full text of "The Baby Party" at Project Gutenberg Australia
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- The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
- The Great Gatsby (1925)
- Tender Is the Night (1934)
- The Last Tycoon (1941, unfinished)
collections
Flappers and Philosophers (1920) |
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Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) |
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All the Sad Young Men (1926) |
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Taps at Reveille (1935) |
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Posthumous works |
- The Vegetable (1923)
- Three Comrades (1938)
- A Yank at Oxford (1938)
- The Crack-Up (1945)
- Beloved Infidel (1959 film)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974 film)
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1975 film)
- Zelda (1993 film)
- Last Call (2002 film)
- The Pursuit of Persephone (2005 musical)
- Waiting for the Moon (2005 musical)
- Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
- Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015 series)
- Genius (2016 film)
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