Fitzgerald, F. Scott | Fitzgerald’s Eras
Fitzgerald’s Eras
- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE 1920s AND 1930s
- CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE 1920s
- CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN THE 1930s
- NOTES
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUNDS OF THE 1920s AND 1930s
An era is not just a time span; it is a period characterized by major events and the responses to them—political, social, and cultural. An era is defined by the way people felt about what was happening to them and around them.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is now automatically identified with the 1920s. He is regarded as an exemplary figure for that decade, embodying and expressing its charm, ebullience, waste, genius, dissipation, and confidence. Yet Fitzgerald was a professional writer from 1920 through 1940; connecting him exclusively with the 1920s distorts the shape and significance of his life and career. The dominant...
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