The Pat Hobby Stories

What is the author's style in The Pat Hobby Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

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The book is divided into seventeen short stories, placed in the book in the same order in which they appeared in Esquire magazine between January 1940 through May of 1941. Each story is self contained, introduced by each one's specific title. The stories are told in a combination of exposition and dialogue. Each story has a well defined plot, each containing only one plot with no subplots.

The structure of the book is simple and easy for the reader to understand. Each story has its own section and is fully self contained as it would have been when it first appeared in Esquire. There is an introduction at the first of the book that explains how the stories came to be written and why, as well as correspondence between the writer and the editor of the magazine. At the end of the book there is a full story that shows Fitzgerald's edits in order to give the reader an idea of how much of a perfectionist Fitzgerald was.

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The Pat Hobby Stories