Born in 1896 to a fairly wealthy family, F(rancis). Scott (Key) Fitzgerald is known as one of the most iconic American authors. Fitzgerald's fame grew thanks to his numerous publications in the Saturday Evening Post, which at the time was the most read magazine in the United States with 2,750,000 copies mailed per week (Bruccoli 15), and Fitzgerald published most of his stories in the magazine. He had many main themes in his works, whether novels, short stories, essays or short stories, each had at least one of its common themes. These are: the allure of wealth, aspiration, fickleness and loss, the rich are different from the average person, love, death, the American myth of success, war, selfishness and loneliness. Fitzgerald also has a writing style that readers will immediately recognize as his own if they have read another of his works. His style is cheerful, witty, lyrical and colorful, which is a very easy to see aspect of his writing, as well as a defining part of it. Fitzgerald not only has a unique style, but he also puts himself into his stories. His most famous short stories are "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Babylon Revisited" and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." In all this he puts a semblance of his own life; whether it's about his wife, himself, or just the way the world is around him. “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” features Fitzgerald's themes of wealth and selfishness. Not only are the usual Fitzgerald themes present, but this story also parallels his life in a smaller sense. Both Fitzgerald and the main characters of 'Diamond' get off to a very good start. The Washington patriarch is introduced by Percy Washington to John Unger as "'by far the richest man in the world'"... middle of paper... omens who cut their hair did so for different reasons. Bernice was narcissistic, while Jo does it altruistically, for the society of women, not because she felt like it. In short, F. Scott Fitzgerald's most prolific short stories paralleled his life and the changing social structures of the world in which he lived. “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” talks about the change in the air of women's social position. “Babylon Revisited” is about the loss of Fitzgerald's son and his wife due to their incompetent parenting skills, paralleling Charlie Wales' situation. And “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” shows how Fitzgerald was once very rich and lost everything, just like the main family of the story, the Washingtons. In conclusion, he fits into his writings in a sense that readers can often glean a semblance of his life in the 1920s and 1930s.