The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | The Concept of Being an Outsider
In the following essay, Rand compares F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz’’ and Richard Wright’s ‘‘The Man Who Lived Underground’’ and discusses the concept of being an outsider that permeates the stories.
Discussions of expatriate United States writers of the early twentieth century generally include both Richard Wright and F. Scott Fitzgerald. However, the literary works of Wright and Fitzgerald are rarely compared directly. Fitzgerald is compared to Ernest Hemingway; Wright is discussed in terms of Langston Hughes or Dostoevsky. In referring to Richard Wright’s story ‘‘The Man Who Lived Underground,’’ for instance, Abraham Chapman sees an ‘‘obvious allusion in the title to the Dostoyevskyan Underground.’’ Nevertheless, as writers, Fitzgerald and Wright have much in...
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