“‘Only’ is a Bad Habit …”: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Utilization of Philosophical Motifs and Issues of Gender in “Head and Shoulders”

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Notes

¹ See Mastandrea, who notes the critical consensus that Fitzgerald’s “Saturday Evening Post stories [were] considered trivial compared to his novels” (34).

² We should note just for the scholarly record here that James West’s wonderful Cambridge Edition of Fitzgerald’s oeuvre has no explanatory note for the Omar brand and many of the other collections that include the story that we have been able to check—Patrick O’Donnell’s collection for Penguin, for example—also omit any mention of this.

³ However, see Stradella for a treatment of the theater metaphor that does not read it as an accidental, tossed-off remark that potentially causes more problems than it ultimately solves.

⁴ See Oxford English Dictionary definition 3.b.