"Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"

 What importance is there in the narrator's mention of Montaigne, Butler, Tolstoi and Marcus Aurelius in the first paragraph?

Kuehl complains that scenes 4, 6 and 7 are "extraneous" and a problem of "Fitzgerald's omnipresent chronological organization." Do you agree that these scenes add nothing to interpreting the story?

 Critical Source:

• Kuehl, John. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne, 1991.