Fitzgerald
Son of Gerald
Fitzgerald is an Irish surname meaning "son of Gerald." It appears most often in reference to F.
Scott Fitzgerald, the American novelist who wrote *The Great Gatsby* and captured the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age: We're reading Fitzgerald in American lit.
Ella Fitzgerald was the legendary jazz vocalist known as the "First Lady of Song."
Writer of prose narratives
- ZeldaGaming heroine with triforce
- The Great GatsbyTwenties novel about obsession
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
- PrincetonIvy League university
short stories · Esquire · Saturday Evening Post · Hollywood · screenwriter · Jazz Age · expatriate · Paris
Prosperous 1920s era
- flappers1920s modern young women
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
bobbed hair · glamour · decadence · excess · parties · champagne · bootleggers · modernity
- West EggFictional nouveau-riche enclave
- Long IslandNYC's suburban peninsula
- green lightAuthorization to proceed
- American DreamUS ethos of opportunity
Daisy Buchanan · Nick Carraway · Tom Buchanan · old money · new money · mansion · parties · Roaring Twenties
Refined, graceful quality
- lyricismExpressive, melodic quality
- prose poetryLiterary hybrid, lyrical sentences
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
nostalgia · wistfulness · longing · disillusionment · tragic beauty · wealth · glamour · excess
Of the Emerald Isle
- GaelicCeltic linguistic tradition
- Norman1066 England conqueror
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
heritage · clan · lineage · family name · patronymic · Anglo-Norman · Ireland · Kennedy
novelist
Writer of prose narratives
- ZeldaGaming heroine with triforce
- The Great GatsbyTwenties novel about obsession
- Lost GenerationDisillusioned postwar literary cohort
Princeton · short stories · Esquire · Saturday Evening Post · Hollywood · screenwriter · Jazz Age · expatriate · Paris · Hemingway
Roaring Twenties
Prosperous 1920s era
- flappers1920s modern young women
- speakeasyIllicit liquor establishment
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
Charleston · bobbed hair · glamour · decadence · excess · parties · champagne · bootleggers · modernity · hedonism
Jay Gatsby
- West EggFictional nouveau-riche enclave
- Long IslandNYC's suburban peninsula
- green lightAuthorization to proceed
Daisy Buchanan · Nick Carraway · Tom Buchanan · American Dream · old money · new money · mansion · parties · Roaring Twenties · prohibition
elegance
Refined, graceful quality
- lyricismExpressive, melodic quality
- prose poetryLiterary hybrid, lyrical sentences
- romanticismEmotional, imaginative worldview
melancholy · nostalgia · wistfulness · longing · disillusionment · tragic beauty · wealth · glamour · excess · moral decay
Irish
Of the Emerald Isle
ancestry · heritage · clan · lineage · family name · patronymic · Anglo-Norman · Ireland · Kennedy · diaspora
- Classic AuthorsShakespeare, Dante, Homer, Chaucer, Milton
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
- Literary ParisLost Generation, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Hemingway, Left Bank
- modernist literatureJoyce, Woolf, James Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway
- ModernistsPicasso, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Stravinsky
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
FitzgeraldHemingway
Dashiell Hammett · Cormac McCarthy · Jack London · John Steinbeck · Upton Sinclair
FitzgeraldHemingway
Norman Mailer · Jack London · machismo · Hunter S. Thompson · Jack Kerouac