F.

SCOTT FITZGERALD THE GREAT GATSBY

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 1940) American novelist and short-story writer.
CONTEXT Roaring 20s:
Economic prosperity: diffusion of automobiles, telephones, etc., industrial
growth, consumers demand.
Break of traditions.
Jazz Age: great demand of jazz musicians.
18th amendment: law of prohibition, bottlegging and gangsterism.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Son of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary
McQuillan.
In 1913, he enrolled at Princeton, where he started composing lyrics.
Before graduating, he volunteered for the army.
He lived in Long Island with his wife. There both of them entertained with
expensive liquors and entertainment.
In the 1930s, his wife was hospitalize for schizophrenia. And some years
later, she died in a fire in a Maryland hospital.
Fitzgerald died from a heart attack induced by a long addiction to alcohol
in 1940.
THE LOST GENERATION
During the 1920s a group of writers known as "The Lost Generation"
gained popularity.
This term is used to describe the people of the 1920s who rejected
American post World War I values.
The three best known writers among The Lost Generation are F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.
It defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness apparent in literary
figures during the 1920s.
These literary figures also criticized American culture in creative fictional
stories which had the themes of self-exile, indulgence (care-free living)
and spiritual alienation.
WRITING STYLE
His novels include elaborate descriptions of characters and places,
similes that create imagery, and allusions.
Rhythm is manipulated through repetition,
sentences, punctuation to achieve different effects.

compound-complex

Lost Generation Writer a pronounced realism and complex symbolism.

The language was very dark and simplified.

 Introduced the first-person fictional narrator the use of Nick as a

narrator enables Fitzgerald to maintain a balance for the first time in his
career between the two sides of his character. The idealist and the
realist. The narration is the tension between them.

HIS LITERARY CAREER

Fitzgerald's own tempestuous relationship with his wife Zelda would be
reflected in his many short stories and novels.
Most of his works are a classic study of the American Dream in all its
highs, lows, excesses and joys.
His work was marked by a pronounced realism, complex symbolism and
created myth. The language was very dark and simplified.
THE AMERCIAN DREAM
Anyone in the US can succeed through hard work, and have the potential
to lead a happy and successful life regardless of social class and
circumstances of birth.
The idea is rooted in The United States Declaration of Independence.
The American Dream dates to the 1600s when it was a dream of fame,
success and wealth.
The industrialization of the 19th and 20th centuries began to erode the
Dream. It was replaced with the philosophy of get rich quickly.
HIS MAJOR WORKS

Novels

This Side of Paradise (1920);

The Beautiful and Damned (1922);

The Great Gatsby (1925);

Tender Is the Night (1934);

The Last Tycoon, unfinished (1941).

Short Stories

Flappers and Philosophers (1920);

Tales of the Jazz Age(1922);

All the Sad Young Men (1926), includes The Rich Boy and

Absolution;

Taps at Reveille (1935).

THE GREAT GATSBY

 The main events of the novel take place in the summer of 1922. The
story is narrated by Nicholas "Nick" Carraway, a Yale graduate and World
War I veteran from the Midwest who takes a job in New York as a bond
salesman. He rents a small house on Long Island, in the (fictional) village
of West Egg, next door to the lavish mansion of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious
millionaire who holds extravagant parties.
Throughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects
of the 1920s American society and the Jazz Age.

SETTING
The story is set in the prosperous Long Island in 1922. Visiting Long
Island's north shore and attending parties at mansions is said to have
inspired the writer to create the setting in The Great Gatsby.
Throughout the novel, places and settings epitomize the various aspects
of the 1920s American society.
THE GREAT GATSBY AS A NOVEL OF MANNER
The novel of manners gives a sharp portrayal of the actual life as it really
is and also of the social behaviour and attitudes that are closely related
with it.
It is possible to read it as a novel of manners for it presents life and
atmosphere of the Roaring 20s in America, the Jazz Age, marked by
prohibition, the organised crime, the new woman as well as the wealthy
upper-class and their carelessness in most affairs.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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