The Hotel Child by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald | Published: January 31, 1931
The Hotel Child Synopsis
"The Hotel Child" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in The Saturday Evening Post on January 31, 1931. Fifi Schwartz is a Jewess who has been Europeanized. Even though FIfi and her family are American, they are accustomed to living in Hotel des Trois Mondes, France. Fifi's beauty, naivety, and wealth attract penniless men who want her for her beauty or money. On the night of her 18th birthday party, after saving her brother from a Russian lady, Fifi has a revelation that she feels lost in this world.
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It is a place where one's instinct is to give a reason for being there--"Oh, you see, I'm here because--" Failing that, you are faintly suspect, because this corner of Europe does not draw people; rather, it accepts them without too many inconvenient questions--live and let live. Routes cross here--people bound for private cliniques or tuberculosis resorts in the mountains, people who are no longer persona grata in Italy or France. And if that were all--
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 to a middle-class family in St Paul, Minnesota. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, came from a wealthy Irish Catholic background, and his mother, Mary McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who had made his fortune in the wholesale grocery business.
Fitzgerald is famous for his novels and short stories during the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), became a sensation after it was published and firmly established him as one of America's foremost authors. He followed up with The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender is the Night (1934). Throughout these works, Fitzgerald explored themes of tragedy, love, and obsession with insightfulness that has made him one of the most revered authors in American literature today. 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.