The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, allegorical short story about lost illusions, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1922 in Tales of the Jazz Age. John T. Unger, a student at an exclusive Massachusetts prep school, befriends Percy Washington, a new classmate who boasts that his father is “the richest man in the world.” He invites John to spend the summer at his family’s home in the Montana Rockies. The Washington mansion is built...