F. Scott Fitzgerald
F.
Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer whose work defined the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
His masterpiece *The Great Gatsby* explores wealth, idealism, and the corruption of the American Dream.
Fitzgerald's own life—glamorous, alcoholic, and ultimately tragic—became inseparable from his literary reputation.
He died in 1940, largely forgotten, only to be rediscovered as one of America's greatest writers.
- flappers1920s modern young women
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
- roaring twentiesProsperous 1920s period
Charleston · bootleggers · Harlem Renaissance · expatriates · Lost Generation · Zelda Fitzgerald · stock market crash · parties
Unversified language
- lyricalMusically expressive
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- green lightAuthorization to proceed
- characterizationDescribing distinctive qualities
narrative · romanticism · elegiac · imagery · metaphor · social critique · irony · tragedy
- PrincetonIvy League university
- St. PaulMinnesota state capital
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
screenwriter · Rockville · debt · early death · literary revival · Ernest Hemingway · Riviera
Twenties novel about obsession
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- Saturday Evening PostLong-running American magazine
Gatsby
- flappers1920s modern young women
- speakeasiesIllicit liquor establishments
- ProhibitionConstitutional alcohol ban era
roaring twenties · Charleston · bootleggers · Harlem Renaissance · expatriates · Lost Generation · Zelda Fitzgerald · stock market crash · parties · wealth
prose
Unversified language
- lyricalMusically expressive
- symbolismRepresenting concepts through images
- green lightAuthorization to proceed
characterization · narrative · romanticism · elegiac · imagery · metaphor · social critique · irony · tragedy · American Dream
Zelda Fitzgerald
- PrincetonIvy League university
- St. PaulMinnesota state capital
- alcoholismAddiction to drinking
Hollywood · screenwriter · Rockville · debt · early death · literary revival · Ernest Hemingway · Riviera
The Great Gatsby
Twenties novel about obsession
- short storiesBrief prose narratives
- Saturday Evening PostLong-running American magazine
- American ModernismGeorgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Ashcan School, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, Fitzgerald
- 1920s IconsBabe Ruth, Charlie Chaplin, Al Capone, Charles Lindbergh, Duke Ellington
- Irish AmericansJoe Biden, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy family, Eugene O'Neill, James Cagney
- Roaring Twentiesflappers, Charleston, speakeasies, jazz age, Prohibition
F. Scott FitzgeraldErnest Hemingway
Cormac McCarthy · Charles Bukowski · John Steinbeck · Jack London · Upton Sinclair
F. Scott FitzgeraldJohn Steinbeck
F. Scott FitzgeraldEmily Dickinson
Herman Melville · Thomas Pynchon · Cormac McCarthy · J.D. Salinger