聊城大学外国语学院美国文学史与选读课件 Lecture20.pptVIP

Francis Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 Literary Position of Fitzgerald The Singer of the Jazz Age The most representative writer of the 1920s, the most noisy age in America history The best chronicler of the Jazz Age (an age of disillusionment and great ecstasy and also of great spiritually activity An insider and outsider (double vision) of many of his novels Life of Fitzgerald Born in St. Paul, Minnesota Father the descendents of southern colonial landowners and legislators; mother Irish immigrants who guided his study Low-esteem due to his family poverty and aspiration for wealth Princeton University from 1913, and getting to know his later helper Edmund Wilson Quit college to join the army in 1917, but WWI ended before he really fought it In 1919 going to New York City to make a fortune to win a Alabama belle Zelda Sayre who rejected him before and succeeded Life of Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1920), a best-seller expressing the voice of youth in the 1920s, making him rich and famous and a winner of Zelda A lot of money made by Flappers and Philosophers (1921), Tales of the Jazz Age （1922）and novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922）for the new couple’s extremely luxurious life in New York City, St. Paul and on Long Island Trip to Europe in 1924 and befriending expatriates like Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Pound The Great Gatsby (1925) during his stay to Europe Life of Fitzgerald 178 short stories in the 1920s, most of which published on Saturday Post, but the couple still in debt Scott getting alcoholic and Zelda mentally breaking down and hospitalized in a mental institution near Baltimore who finally dying in a hospital fire in 1948 Tender is the Night (1934), telling a mentally bankrupted young psychiatrist whose career eroded by marriage to belle patient Turning to Hollywood Screen writer in 1937, but death of heart attack in 1940 The Crack-Up (1945), writings and essays Works of Fitzgerald (1)Novels “This Side of Paradise (life in Princeton, frustration of