Discussion starters:

• What important connections do you make between this story and "The Ice Palace"?

• What is the importance of the crap-shooting scene, which Fitzgerald credited his wife for expertice?

• How would you define a "jelly-bean" in today's language?

• Does Nancy Lamar fit the "flapper" stereotype that we have come to expect in Fitzgerald's work? 

Critical Sources:

• Holman, Hugh C. “Fitzgerald’s Changes on the Southern Belle: The Tarleton Trilogy” The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Approaches in Criticism. Ed. Jackson R. Bryer.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1982.  53-64.

• Kuehl, John. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.