num_pages: 76
description: May Day, Fitzgerald's first great novelette, mingles autobiographical details with events from contemporary history. In May 1919, after an interfraternity dance at Delmonico’s, Fitzgerald was bounced out of the Fifty-ninth-Street Childs for a disturbance similar to the one created by Peter Himmel in the story. At the same time, the assault on the New York Trumpet by a mob of drunken soldiers parallels a raid on the socialist New York Call during the red scare of 1919. Like many of Fitzgerald’s stories from Tales of the Jazz Age, May Day includes a “touch of disaster”--in this case the violent despair of down-and-out Yale man Gordon Sterrett--which is contrasted with the oblivious pursuit of pleasure by Gordon’s double, his wealthy, man-about-town classmate, Philip Dean. May Day is a masterpiece from one of America's greatest writers. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.
language: English
title: May Day
titlecomplete: May Day
characters: Edith Bradin, Gus Rose, Gordon Sterrett, George Key, Philip Dean, Jewel Hudson, Carrol Key
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, The United States Of America, Novella, American, Historical Fiction, College, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 1497
publisher: Boomer Books