Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a Jazz Age novelist and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest twentieth-century American writers. Born on September 24, 1896, he was the only son of an aristocratic father and a provincial, working-class mother. He was the product of two divergent traditions: while his father's family included the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" (after whom Fitzgerald was named), his mother's family was, in Fitzgerald's own...
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Identity is “the characteristics determining who or what a person or thing is” (Oxford Dictionary). Identity includes one’s sexuality, age, political views, religious beliefs, or anything that shapes who they are. In Tender is the Night by F....
Babylon Revisited by F Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of father Charlie Wales trying to regain custody of his daughter, Honoria, seven years after the death of his wife. He has spent that time working to be a better man for himself, for his late...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” illustrates the life of Dexter Green, a young man who yearns to be a part of exclusive society, and hopes to become close to a woman named Judy Jones. This traditional styled story about society, masculinity...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Babylon Revisited” and other works gave him a famous name in American literature. Fitzgerald was a prominent figure during the “Roaring Twenties” because of both his published works and his marriage to an Alabama...
One of the main ideas that pulses throughout "Winter Dreams" is the liberation of women, which, throughout history, has often been associated with the Roaring Twenties. Although the concept and title of The New Woman was first coined in the late...
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” is the story of Dexter Green and his pursuit of Judy Jones. Dexter wants Judy to be untouched by time, and his dream is the dream of being with her. Fitzgerald, through his writing, endorses the idea of the...
There’s no question that the anthology Fiction 100 does exactly what it sets out to do: highlight carefully curated short stories that represent each aspect of the craft, from short prose to anecdotes. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s work, “Winter Dreams,”...
In order to discuss the importance of context and changes made to the story in accordance to that context, I would like to take David Fincher’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” as the case study...
At first glance, “Babylon Revisited” seems to carry the same them as The Great Gatsby of the dangers of idealizing the past to the point of destroying the present. However, “Babylon Revisited” adds an extra layer of meaning by firmly placing the...
In “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, Fitzgerald illustrates a metaphorical Heaven and Hell through the Washington estate and birthplace of John T. Unger. The ambiguous nature of these two important biblical concepts is distorted, yet apparent...
The American Dream has always been considered the ideal that every United States citizen has an opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work and success. Many people came to follow and believe in the magnificence of the American...
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited”, the city that Charlie revisits is Paris; however; the title of the story is “Babylon Revisited”. The title is a Biblical allusion that draws parallels between the things that transpired in the Ancient...
