Two Wrongs Summary
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Two Wrongs Overview

A classic example of his fascination with “hommes manqués” and “femmes fatales,” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Two Wrongs” tells the love story of Bill McChesney, a talented but irresponsible playwright, and Emmy Pinkard, an ambitious but kind ballet dancer. Like much of Fitzgerald’s work, the story is set in New York City in the high society of the 1920s, and serves as a paradigmatic portrait of the Jazz Age. A story of love lost and the impossibility of redemption, “Two Wrongs” fits alongside “Babylon Revisited” and other late Fitzgerald stories as an example of the authors mastery of the short story form.