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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Baby Party." Feedbooks, n.d. Digital.

• The third-person narrative begins with a description of John Andros's feelings about being a father: whenever he starts feeling old, he is comforted by thinking of "life continuing through" his daughter, Ede (3).

• Every afternoon at three o'clock, his wife Edith calls his office and puts their daughter on the phone.

• Though Ede is only two and a half, John enjoys hearing her babbling at him.

• John struggled with illness and poverty in his earlier life, and he sometimes feels old, even though he is only 38.

• Because of his earlier struggles, "he cherished less than the usual number of illusions," and "even his feeling about his little girl was qualified" (3).

• He recognizes that having the child "interrupted his rather intense love affair with...

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