Flappers and Philosophers was written by F.Scott Fitzerald in 1920 and consisted of 8 short story which was The Offshore Pirate, The Ice Palace, Head and Shoulders, The Cut-Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Benediction, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong, The Four Fists. Among them I like The offshore pirate best.
The offshore pirate is about a spoiled young woman whose name is Ardita Farnam, who is on trip to Florida with her uncle. This unlikely story begin on a sea that is a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. The main character of this story is a woman who is flapper and a man who is pirate. She is about nineteen, slender and supple, with a spoiled alluring mouth and quick gray eyes full of a radiant curiosity. He is a young man with a scornful mouth and the bright blue eyes of a health baby set in a dark sensitive face. His hair is pitch black, damp and curly. He and his company are generally known as Curtis Carlyle and his Six Black Buddies. She's boat is captured by pirates. Then they talk about their experiences. As time goes on she falls in love with their captain whose name is Carlyle. The dramatic reversal adds zest to the book. Finally he gives her the diamond bracelet that the Czar of Russia gave his mother and reveal his true identity. His name is Toby Moreland who has a proposal of her. But she doesn't angry about that and says to him "I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life." It's just like her. After I read this book. I think about the other one that was mentioned by him. "There is Florida mud in the bags which is one of the two true things I told you." Perhaps the other thing is free or love? I wonder the other thing.
