1. ❄ Prepared by - Nidhi Dave
❄ MA sem 2
❄ Roll no -16
❄ Email ID- davenidhi05@gmail.com
❄ P- 106 -The Twentieth century
Literature: 1900 to world war 2
❄ Submitted to =
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
3. Author’s Biography
❄ Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an eminent author
of the early 20th century.
❄ He was born in Minnesota in 1896.
❄ Fitzgerald was a bright and talented child,
demonstrating a strong interest in literature from
a young age.
❄ F. Scott Fitzgerald is know as a prominent
novelist and short story writer.
4. ❄ His first important book was titled ‘The Slide Of
Paradise’ and was an autobiographical story
exploring the concept of love and greed.
❄ The audience saw him as a Master Chronicler
of the Jazz Age, who had managed to grasp
the spirit of the time.
❄ He died in 1940.
❄ Despite his short life, Fitzgerald greatly
contributed to classical literature on a global
level.
5. “The Roaring Twenties” was also known as the Jazz
Age. The Jazz Age was the term coined by F.Scott
Fitzgerald in his collection of short stories Tales of the
Jazz Age (1922), and was a characteristics feature of
the 1920s when jazz music and dancing achieved
immense popularity in the US and also influenced other
parts of the world.
What is The Jazz Age
6. The Roaring Twenties are associated with the increasing
popularity of materialistic views, to which Fitzgerald objected
in many of his works.
The Jazz Age received its name partly because of numerous
parties, which were held by wealthy people and where the
music was played loudly. This encourage the stylistic core of
Fitzgerald’s most famous work, creating its unparalleled
atmosphere.
7. The Lost Generation
❄ The Lost Generation refers to the generation of
writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals that came
of age during the First World War and the “Roaring
Twenties.”
❄ The unprecedented carnage and destruction of the
war stripped this generation of their illusions about
democracy, peace, and prosperity, and many
expressed doubt and cynicism in their artistic
endeavors
8. Most Famous Lost Generation writers
❄ F. Scott Fitzgerald
❄ Gertrude Stein
❄ T.S.Eliot
❄ Ernest Hemingway
❄ John Dos Passos and
❄ John Steinbeck
9. A Culture of Change
African – American culture Jazz music exploded as popular
entertainment in the 1920s and brought African-American
culture to the white middle class.
The Jazz Age was a post-World War I movement in the 1920s
from which jazz music and dance emerged. Although the era
ended with the outset of the Great Depression in 1929, jazz has
lived on in American popular culture.
10. The Flappers
❄ Flapper: A young woman whose unconventional
clothing and progressive attitude personified the
free spirit of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz
Age.
❄ women noted for their flamboyant style of dress,
progressive attitudes, and modernized morals—
began to captivate society during the Jazz Age.
❄ Although the Jazz Age ended as the Great
Depression struck and victimized America
throughout the 1930s.
11. The portrayal of the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby
❄ Fitzgerald’s most prominent novel tells the
story of wealth and love amid the shifting
values of the Jazz Age.
❄ The Jazz Age may serve as a suitable
background for different plots, but Fitzgerald
expands its importance to more than just the
setting. The Great Gatsby is not merely a story
about wealth and love.It comments on the very
concept of the American Dream.
12. Santa Claus
❄ However, another side of the American Dream
suggests that success and prosperity are to be
attained through hard work and dedication.
❄ In the case of the Jazz, in general, and The Great
Gatsby, in particular, it is often shown that wealth may
undeservingly come from pure luck or even illegal
criminal activity. It is depicted in contrast with the
American Dream of the wealthy, who were
accustomed to having anything they desired.
13. ❄ Jay Gatsby was a reach person who could
afford many pleasures in life.Having obtained
high status and wealth, Gatsby desired to be
together with Daisy Buchanan, and he was not
ready to fail in the face of potential
difficulties.Normally, society’s moral values
would be a significant barrier in this regard, but
Fitzgerald shows their decreasing role in the
Jazz Age.
14. Work Cited
Corgi. (2022, February 20). Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age
Perception in “The Great Gatsby”. https://studycorgi.com/francis-
scott-fitzgeralds-jazz-age-perception-in-the-great-gatsby/
Schneider, Samuel. "A Culture of Change- The Jazz Age." n.d.
Boundless US History. 9 4 2022.
