F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Dropped out of Princeton University in 1917 to fight in WWI, but the war ended before he shipped out. • one of the most popular and accomplished writers of the movement. • major works
This Side of Paradise The Last Tycoon
The Beautiful and the Damned The Great Gatsby
About The Great Gatsby:
The setting is New York City and Long Island during the 1920s. Nick, the narrator, is a young Princeton man, who works as a bond broker in Manhattan. He becomes involved in the life of his neighbor at Long Island , Jay Gatsby, shady and mysterious financier, who is entertaining hundreds of guests at lavish parties.
Montparnasse
Montparnasse served as the heart of artistic creativity and intellect in Paris after the war. Contained many cheap studios, apartments, and was also an area filled with important cafes and other nightlife. All of the Lost Generation writers found themselves here at one time or another.
Paris
Between 1921 and 1924, the number of Americans in Paris grew from 6,000 to 30,000. Paris was the prime city in which the Lost Generation chose to wander.
The Writers of the “Lost Generation”
Lost Generation
“Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.”
The Other Lost Generation
The phrase was coined by Gertrude Stein (spoken to Hemingway): “You are all a lost generation.”
Group of American writers in the Post-World War One era who were:
• Displeased with American social values, sexual and aesthetic conventions, and established morality. First fled to cities such as Chicago and San Francisco; then to Paris, London, Madrid, Barcelona, and Rome (in particular, Montparnasse). • All pioneered new ways of writing, rebelling against the traditional Victorian literary style. • Writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Gertrude Stein.
The Sun Alost Generation? Literally, it is the generation of people born between 1883 and 1900.They were disillusioned by World War I. Known in Europe as the “1914 Generation” .
Gatsby reveals to Nick, that he and Nick's cousin Daisy Fay Buchanan, had a brief affair before the war. However, Daisy married Tom Buchanan, a rich but boring man of social position. Gatsby lost Daisy because he had no money, but he is still in love with her. He persuades Nick to bring him and Daisy together again. Gatsby tries to convince Daisy to leave Tom, who, in turn, reveals that Gatsby has made his money from bootlegging. Daisy, driving Gatsby's car, hits and kills Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson, unaware of her identity. Gatsby remains silent to protect Daisy. Tom tells Myrtle's husband it was Gatsby who killed his wife. Wilson murders Gatsby and then commits suicide. Nick is left to arrange Gatsby's funeral, attended only Gatsby's father and one former guest.