RKS Literature: Gloria’s Categorization of Husbands (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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“There are four types of husbands.

  • The husband who always wants to stay in the evening, has no vices and works for a salary. Totally undesirable.
  • The atavistic master whose mistress one is, to wait on his pleasure. This sort always considers every pretty woman “shallow” a sort of peacock with arrested development.
  • Next comes the worshipper, the idolator of his wife and all that is his, to the utter oblivion of everything else. This sort demands an emotional actress for a wife. God! It must be an exertion to be thought righteous.
  • And Anthony-a temporarily passionate lover with wisdom enough to realize when it has flown and that it must fly. And I want to get married to Anthony.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and the Damned”, 1922

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Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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