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Gradually, Unger learns the sinister origins of his host's wealth and the frightening lengths to which he will go to preserve it. It tells of young John Unger, who is invited to visit a classmate at his impossibly lavish home in Montana. The story was inspired by Fitzgerald's 1915 visit to the Montana home of a Princeton classmate, Charles Donahoe, and was one of Fitzgerald's few forays into the realm of fantasy. In September 1922, the story appeared in his second collection, Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald had attempted to sell it to the Saturday Evening Post, which had published many of his other stories, but its harsh anticapitalistic message was rejected by the conservative magazine. Scott Fitzgerald's story "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" first appeared in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set, a popular magazine of the 1920s.
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