...Roaring Twenties and Modernism 7 F. Scott Fitzgerald “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (1920) A. Characterisation - Comment on the characters with regard to the final chapters and the end. B. Narration and Language - What sort of narrator narrates “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”? Compare with Hemingway. - Characterise Fitzgerald’s language; you may find the adjectives below helpful. Compare with Hemingway; who is the more experimental? metaphorical – religious – humoristic – serious – playful – matter-of-fact – straightforward - | - What function do the passages of dialogue have? - Does Fitzgerald mainly ‘tell’ or ‘show’? telling – the narrator tells the readers what the characters feel: | showing – the narrator shows the readers what the characters feel: | When the teacher asked the students if they had done their homework, they felt very embarrassed. | When the teacher asked the students if they had done their homework, they looked down. | C. Structure - How has the short story been structured? (exposition and presentation of main conflict, subordinate conflicts, climax, coda) - What function does each chapter have, or how does chapter contribute to deepening or relaxing the conflict(s)? D. List the ten most important words of advice that would necessarily be included in a guidebook for a society vampire of the 1920s. E. Modernism In Life and Literature, Christensen writes about F. Scott Fitzgerald that * his works often deal with...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald is an American authoran , short story writer,publishing dozens of short stories in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post. The most famous of these are, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," " The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and at the top of critics' lists everywhere, the 1931 "Babylon Revisited." "Babylon Revisited" is the story of a Charlie Wales, a former drunken party-goer who returns to Paris, the site of his former 1920s debauchery, shortly after the stock market crash of 1929. Charlie sees his world with new (sober) eyes and is both shocked and appalled by the extravagance that characterized his former life. The story is rooted in the financial crisis of its times. Fitzgerald wrote the piece in December of 1930, when the good times of the Jazz Age (also called the "Roaring Twenties") had come to an end and America was headed into the Great Depression. Charlie's horror with his own former waste and self-destruction is Fitzgerald's condemnation of a society who drank away the '20s. "Babylon Revisited" is also a criticism of Fitzgerald's own participation in the party that lasted a decade. (Fitzgerald's fast-lane lifestyle epitomized his generation of Jazz Age party-goers.) He wrote in a letter to his editor that he "announced the birth of [his] young illusions in This Side of Paradise, but pretty much the death of them in […] stories like 'Babylon Revisited'" (source: Matthew Joseph Bruccoli and Scottie Fitzgerald...
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...ABSTRACT SOCIAL CLASSES IN THE SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD , Bachelor of Arts in English, Central Mindanao University, Musuan, Bukidnon, March 2015. Research Method Instructor: Mayflor Prantilla-Aramabala, MELL This study is limited only to the study of five (5) selected short stories of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald “F. Scott Fitzgerald” The Winter Dreams, The Diamond as Big as Ritz, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Jelly Bean, and The Offshore Pirates. The researcher used the descriptive study in which the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. This study specifically focused on the discussion of interaction of characters from different short stories. Also, this study will identify and enumerate the different social classes, roles and status using the Marxist theory. The study uses descriptive design. It was found out that in the five short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald the three types of social classes were present namely: the upper, middle and lower class. Thus, this study concluded that the most common social classes found in the short stories are the upper and middle class. The social roles and status are almost alike. The issues were identify and interpret the interaction of the characters in the short stories. Keyword: Roles, Conflict, Society, Conflict Theory, Marxist Criticism, Short Stories Chapter I INTRODUCTION Reading of short stories is one of the people’s way of spending their spare time. Some are obliged to read such because it is one of...
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...Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Sean P. Conway Teacher Period 27 April 2013 Class System in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald Topic: F. Scott Fitzgerald Purpose: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s stories show the demise of the “American Dream” by Demonstrating that the American class system determines your manner, Lifestyle and character 1. Introduction: Fitzgerald believed the American dream was false and distorted. 2. Stories showed the decadence of the Jazz Age but with a jaded view 3. 1920s a. About the time period b. “The Jazz Age” c. Wealth d. Social values e. Fashion 4. Works by Fitzgerald a. This Side of Paradise b. The Great Gatsby c. The love of the last tycoon 5. Symbolism a. Great Gatsby i. Green light ii. Valley of ashes (poor’s lack of values, unfaithful’s lack of morals) iii. Beat up car b. This Side of Paradise i. Speed and cars ii. Alcohol as means to forget c. The Love of the Last Tycoon i. Car ii. Sheep /people iii. Light/darkness as reality/fantasy 6. Theme a. American dream b. Class system c. Relationships 7. Conclusion The death of the “American Dream” was a notable part of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. His use of symbolism and extensive writings on the large gap between the social classes demonstrated why he felt this way. According to his...
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