The Guest in Room Nineteen by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Published: October 1937
The Guest in Room Nineteen Synopsis
"The Guest in Room Nineteen" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in Esquire magazine on October 1937.
Mr. Cass is a guest at a hotel. Mr. Cass could not be as active as before because of a stroke; day by day, he feels like life passed him by. One day he befriended a watchman working on putting a log onto the fire, and Mr. Cass had an interesting conversation with him about another guest who stayed in room nineteen. From the description given by the watchman, Mr. Cass suspected the guest from room nineteen was his old partner John Canisius.
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Mr. Cass knew he couldn't go to sleep so he put his tie on again and went back to the lobby. The guests were all gone to bed but a little aura of activity seemed to linger about a half-finished picture puzzle, and the night watchman was putting a big log on the fire.
Mr. Cass limped slowly across the soft carpet, stopped behind him and grunted, "Heavy?"
The watchman, a wiry old mountaineer, looked around sharply.
"A hundred pound. It's wet—it'll be one o'clock before it's burning good."
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the most celebrated American writers of the 20th century. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald had a tumultuous life marked by success and failure. He was known for his novels that captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in America and explored themes of love, wealth, and social status. Fitzgerald's most famous novel is "The Great Gatsby," published in 1925. The novel explores themes such as obsession, disillusionment with the American Dream, and the corrupting influence of money on society. Find out more about F. Scott Fitzgerald at sevenov.com.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Books on PageVio
Novels: This Side of Paradise | The Beautiful and Damned | The Great Gatsby | Tender Is the Night
Short Story Collections: Flappers and Philosophers | Tales of the Jazz Age | All the Sad Young Men | Taps at Reveille | The Pat Hobby Stories | Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Plays: The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman
Here's a full list of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.