Two for a Cent

"He had been bored with the President, he had been bored and not a little embarrassed with the duchesses-nevertheless, the two incidents had pleased him and still sat softly upon his naive vanity."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Two for a Cent (1922)

Two for a Cent (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a short story that deviates from his romantic plotline and is the first of several he wrote in which a man returns to his hometown. The story opens with juxtaposed main characters. First introduced is highly...