F. Scott Fitzgerald

Résumé du livre

This article explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's status as both chronicler and critic of Jazz Age society, as illustrated in his novels The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934). These two works are understandably most famous for their portrayal of the Roaring Twenties as a time of decadence and prosperity following the privations of the Great War. The present article, however, will highlight the patterns of delusion and prejudice upon which that prosperity was built. Problems of race and class, sometimes seen as peripheral to Fitzgerald's works, are here discussed as central elements that deepen and inform the interpersonal drama of Gatsby and Tender Is the Night.