the rich boy

Here’s a book I didn’t really understand and some quotes that I liked:

"They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves."

"It was typical of him that every Sunday morning he taught in a fashionable Episcopal Sunday-school–even though a cold shower and a quick change into a cutaway coat were all that separated him from the wild night before."

"In the early days of their married life they had all needed him; he gave them advice about their slim finances, he exorcised their doubts about the advisability of bringing a baby into two rooms and a bath, especially he stood for the great world outside. But now their financial troubles were in the past and the fearfully expected child had evolved into an absorbing family. They were always glad to see old Anson, but they dressed up for him and tried to impress him with their present importance, and kept their troubles to themselves. They needed him no longer."

"A party was an adjusted thing–you took certain girls to certain places and spent just so much on their amusement; you drank a little, not much, more than you ought to drink, and at a certain time in the morning you stood up and said you were going home. You avoided college boys, sponges, future engagements, fights, sentiment, and indiscretions. That was the way it was done. All the rest was dissipation." - Fitzgerald on hookup culture?