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The novel takes place following War. the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during "roaring" the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic.
Remarks on Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby
The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James...". Don Birnam, the protagonist of Steph and Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend, says to himself, referring to Gatsby, "There's no such thing...as a flawless novel. But if there is, this is it”. Richard Yates, a writer often compared to Fitzgerald, called The Great Gatsby "the most nourishing novel he read...a miracle of talent...a triumph of technique”. It was written in a New York Times editorial after his death” that Fitzgerald was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.... He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction."
Jazz Age
The Jazz Age was a movement that took place during the 1920s or the Roaring twenties from which jazz music and dance emerged. The movement came about with the introduction of mainstream radio and the end of the war. This era ended in the 1930s with the beginning of The Great Depression but has lived on in American pop culture for decades . The birth of jazz music is often accredited to African Americans but expanded and modified to become socially acceptable to middle-class white Americans.
The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby is a novel by the
American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
( September 24, 1896 ~ December 21, 1940 )
Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age. He was widely regarded one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.
Novels
This Side of Paradise The Beautiful and Damned Tender is the Night The Great Gatsby
The lost generatiBiblioteka Baidun
The term "lost generation" was coined by Gertrude Stein, a lost generation writer herself, after World War I. The Lost Generation was a group of rebellious youth appeared in America after the First World War. The 1920s was an age of Prohibition. Alcoholic beverages were outlawed by a constitutional amendment. However, young people cheerfully evaded the law in thousands of “speakeasies” (illegal bars). They played jazz, took drugs and bravely denunciated the Puritan morality and the social convention. At the same time, a lot of works appeared to reflect these young men’s depression and sad emotion. They seemed to lose their directions for the future. Generally speaking, the Lost Generation was a group Hemingway of people who were sobered up by the War. Lewis Mumford, Fitzgerald William Faulkner Matthew, Sherwood Anderson,