F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories brilliantly realize an era both exploding with opportunity and seething with decadence. His prose captures the melancholy lacquered over with merriment, the corruption interlaced with glamour, all refracted through a spectrum of human lives.

Bernice Bobs Her Hair: When boring Bernice visits her extended family, her glamorous cousin Marjorie decides to make Bernice over, if only to keep her from being such a drag. Pretty soon Bernice is popular with all the boys, including Marjorie's beau, Warren. And Marjorie isn't going to stand for that.