The Diamond as Big as the Ritz | Essays and Criticism
- An Allegory for Political Events in Fitzgerald's Time
Pryor has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and over twenty years experience in professional and creative writing with special interest in fiction. In the following essay, she demonstrates how “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” can be interpreted as an allegory for political events in Fitzgerald’s time.
- 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.
- A Critical Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Work
In the following essay, Prigozy gives a critical analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work.

