Abstract
The obituary story An Mother (Price 360-63) depicts the accidental death of an old lady while she is away from her sons. It was written in early September 1936, shortly before Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald's death, and published that same month in Esquire as the third part of an informal series of autobiographical sketches that also includes Author's House ( Esquire , July 1936; 183-89) and Afternoon of an Author (Esquire, August 1936; 177-82). Fitzgerald's relationship with his mother had always been ambiguous. His 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age had been surprisingly dedicated QUITE INAPPROPRIATELY TO MY MOTHER, thus suggesting a mixture of attachment and resentment that is likewise found in the 1936 short story. These paradoxical feelings are also revealed in his semi-ironic remark to Beatrice Dance in a September 15, 1936, letter:
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