A beautiful “battle of the sexes” themed story, all dialog, similar to “Hills Like White Elephants” (that one was published in 1927, maybe Shaw was influenced b

A beautiful “battle of the sexes” themed story, all dialog, similar to “Hills Like White Elephants” (that one was published in 1927, maybe Shaw was influenced by it? Or it could be the influence of his theater background). This being 1939, one shouldn’t visualize the women Michael was ogling similar to the Distracted Boyfriend meme, luckily there’s a movie called “The Fifth Avenue Girl” from 1939 that gives an idea what they were wearing at the time, https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1222/fifth-avenue-girl/#overview https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/1222/fifth-avenue-girl/#over.... I read this story for the first time; another story that he published in 1939, “Main Currents of American Thought” is widely anthologized (I personally found it dreadful).