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Bernice Bobs Her Hair

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So I have to confess that like this story a lot, but I actually like drama on a smaller scale. So "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is actually my favorite story among the Fitzgerald stories. And I hope that you'll see why. It's about reversion to an original type and an unknown future. Fitzgerald, l think, really liked the story as well this is the story that is featured on the cover of the collection of short stories Flappers and Philosophers. And if the word "flapper," if that doesn't ring a bell right away, this is an image of the very famous flappers of the 1920s, people who bobbed their hair and wear short skirts, show their legs, and so on. The flappers. You guys know that the story is really about someone who's becoming a flapper. Bernice is she has, in fact, cut off all her beautiful hair, tons and tons of hair, has it cut off. But it turns out that that's exactly the wrong hairdo for her. She's "ugly as sin" after that, and her beaus stop her beaus lose all interest in her. And she has one person to thank, her cousin.

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So I have to confess that like this story a lot, but I actually like drama on a smaller scale. So "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is actually my favorite story among the Fitzgerald stories. And I hope that you'll see why. It's about reversion to an original type and an unknown future. Fitzgerald, l think, really liked the story as well this is the story that is featured on the cover of the collection of short stories Flappers and Philosophers. And if the word "flapper," if that doesn't ring a bell right away, this is an image of the very famous flappers of the 1920s, people who bobbed their hair and wear short skirts, show their legs, and so on. The flappers. You guys know that the story is really about someone who's becoming a flapper. Bernice is she has, in fact, cut off all her beautiful hair, tons and tons of hair, has it cut off. But it turns out that that's exactly the wrong hairdo for her. She's "ugly as sin" after that, and her beaus stop her beaus lose all interest in her. And she has one person to thank, her cousin.
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