F. Scott Fitzgerald 
Jelly-Bean 

A ‘;Jelly-bean’ is ‘;one who spends his life conjugating the verb ‘;to idle.’" Born into middle-class society, a man becomes a grocery delivery boy after his father’s untimely death, and soon descends into the seamier side of life: gambling and ‘;listening to spicy tales of all the shootings that had occurred in the surrounding country.’