The Cut-Glass Bowl
“The Cut-Glass Bowl” is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald featured in the anthology, Flappers and Philosophers. These illustrations coincide with pivotal moments and significant themes within the narrative as one woman’s fate is inextricably intertwined with that of an object which, according to her former suitor, was “as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through.”
“As in most families whose fortunes have gone down rather than up, she and Harold had drifted into a colorless antagonism. In repose they looked at each other with the toleration they might have felt for broken old chairs; Evylyn worried a little when he was sick and did her best to be cheerful under the wearying depression of living with a disappointed man.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Cut-Glass Bowl,” Flappers and Philosophers, 1920