• "May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in The Smart Set in the July 1920 issue. The story was included in his 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz...
  • Set on May 1, 1919, the day in which violent demonstrations took place for the rights of lower classes, privileged young Yale alumni reunite for a dance in New...
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  • May Day” follows college student Philip Dean as he navigates the May Day riots with his friends in New York City.
  • This is the story of May Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations organized by unions and other labor groups.
  • Things became reconciled to themselves, things lay quietly on their shelves; the troubles of the day arranged themselves in trim formation and at his curt wish of...
  • "May Day" (1920) is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  • In 1922, it was republished in a collection of Fitzgerald’s stories called Tales of the Jazz Age, which included ten other short stories...
  • This story employs the May Day rioting of 1919 as the historical reality that impinges on characters existing at different social levels and about to collide.
  • The setting of the story is taken from the May Day riots of 1919 in Ohio, which resulted in two deaths and over one hundred arrests.