Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar
1923
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Fitzgerald seems to trivialize the Jazz phenomenon; the rebellious culture of dancing and youth which mirrored the high society of the previous generation but in its hollow hierarchy and rules of popularity. The story is entertaining despite the seemingly depressive climax after which everything goes back to normal; as if the age itself is just one episodic summer of ecstasy that only a few can accept for what it really was and not what they want it to be. Jim is better than the lot of them only because he doesn't resign to the artificial pomp of the culture, even though his isolation from it was unexpected and hurtful for him. by Ben
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Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author · 174 books
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.
