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In reply to the discussion: Wealthy disagree with most Americans about income policies [View all]But years later, Ernest Hemingway, who was supposedly a friend of Fitzgerald, mocked the famed opening lines of Rich Boy in his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro. In the original version of that story, printed in Esquire magazine in 1936, Hemingway wrote:
The rich...were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, The very rich are different from you and me. And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamorous race and when he found they weren't it wrecked him as much as any other thing that wrecked him.
Understandably, Fitzgerald was offended. He complained to Hemingways publisher and when the story was reprinted in a 1938 collection of Hemingways short stories, Scott Fitzgerald was changed to the name Julian. But in his personal notebooks, Fitzgerald made the mistake of writing a cryptic entry that said: They have more money. (Ernests wisecrack.)
After Fitzgeralds death, entries from his notebooks were included in The Crack-Up (1945), a book compiled from Fitzgeralds writings by his friend Edmund Wilson. Wilson added a footnote to the notebook entry about Ernests wisecrack that explained: Fitzgerald had said, The rich are different from us. Hemingway had replied, Yes, they have more money.
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