F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Rich Boy" is a short story about Anson Hunter, a very affluent young man.

"[5] The Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli describes the story as "an extension of The Great Gatsby, enlarging the examination of the effects of wealth on character.

"[2] Fowler requested excisions that Fitzgerald made before the story was collected in All the Sad Young Men the following year.

[8] Fitzgerald explained to Max Perkins that this "it would have been absolutely impossible for me to have stretched 'The Rich Boy' into anything bigger than a novelette.

They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.

When I hear a man proclaiming himself an 'average, honest, open fellow,' I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality which he has agreed to conceal.