Bernice Bobs Her Hair Summary

Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott K. Fitzgerald.

Bernice is a wealthy young girl from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, who, according to her cousin Marjorie, is a disaster on her social life, and none of the men pay attention to her.

She goes to visit Marjorie and one day she hears a conversation between her and her mother criticizing her and complaining about her lack of feminine charm. Bernice gets angry because of it and threatens to leave the town, but Marjorie convinces her of turning her into a flirty and charming girl, able to catch every man´s attention.

Marjorie teaches Bernice how to dance, how to flirt, how to be more desirable and how to hold an interesting conversation with any man. Bernice is a complete success in town, specially with Warren, the boy who Marjorie falls for. When Marjorie realizes, she starts humilliating Bernice in front of the people. One day, to make things worse, Marjorie tricks Bernice into going through with bobbing her hair at the barber shop. When she comes out of the barber shop, her hair looks weird, unattractive and flat. Quickly, she notices that all the men are overlooking her and that they have lost interest in her. She realizes that was tricked by Marjorie. She decides to leave the town, but before leaving, one night, she cuts Marjorie´s long braids and takes them with her to throw them onto Warren´s front porch.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (better known as F. Scott Fitzgerald) was a short story writer and novelist considered one of the greatest authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous posthumous success of his third book, The Great Gatsby. Perhaps the quintessential American novel, as well as a definitive social history of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby has become required reading for virtually every American high school student and has had a transportive effect on generation after generation of readers. At the age of 24, the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, made Fitzgerald famous. One week later, he married the woman he loved and his muse, Zelda Sayre. However by the end of the 1920s Fitzgerald descended into drinking, and Zelda had a mental breakdown. Following the unsuccessful Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. He died of a heart attack in 1940, at age 44, his final novel only half completed.