In “The Freshest Boy” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Basil Lee’s significant feeling of being ostracized causes him to ameliorate his demeanor with the boys of St. Regis. From the beginning of the story, Basil’s experience at boarding school is dreadful. Basil is “fresh” with his classmates once again, separating himself from the educational community. The realization of this shocks him. After one particular day that he is savagely abashed in, “[Basil] [goes] up to his room and [cries]”; being shunned by his peers proves to be an awful experience. Basil decides to see a show in New York but struggles with getting permission to do so; he cannot find a group of boys to go with, as he is “quite conscious that he [is] the most unpopular boy at school’”.
