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Bernice Bobs her Hair

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals round, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations! -Marjorie, Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Bernice Bobs Her Hair is one of Fitzgerald's most famous and earliest short stories. It was his fourth story for the Saturday Evening Post, published in May of 1920, but it was later collected in the anthology Flappers and Philosophers, published in 1922.

That's all the boring technical details I can give you. For me it's just a fun story completely representative of his early work. And his early work means it's public domain, hence I share. (Besides, I identified with Bernice. This experience is quite similar to one I had, without the bold ending) I decided to break the story up into six parts.

Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI

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