Fitzgerald & the Roaring Twenties

A form of literature that was sparked by World War I.

• Transcendentalism

• Realism

• Romanticism

• Modernism

A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

• Dejectedness

• Disillusionment

• Idealism

• Despondency

The group of American writers who came of age during the 1920s. Around the period of the great war.

• The Lost Generation

• The Bloomsbury Group

• The Inklings

• Philosophers Corner

The moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.

• Confusion

• Gender Roles

• Idealized Past

• Decadence

Rather than face the horrors of warfare, many worked to create an idealized but unattainable image of the past.

• Confusion

• Decadence

• Gender Roles

• Idealized Past

Shifts in gender relations at the turn of the century heavily influenced modernist literature.

• Gender Roles

• Idealized Past

• Decadence

• Confusion

The mindset of the American people as they try to find where they belong.

• Decadence

• Confusion

• Idealized Past

• Gender Roles

Who is the author of the Great Gatsby?

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Ernest Hemingway

• Gertrude Stein

• T.S. Eliot

Zelda Fitzgerald would not marry F. Scott Fitzgerald unti she knew he could financially support her?

• True

• False

Like many modernist writers, Fiitzgerald moved to this country to write The Great Gatsby.

• Spain

• Germany

• Britain

• France