My research question, “how do the women in Fitzgerald’s fiction, specifically in the novels “The Beautiful and The Damned” and “The Great Gatsby”, relate to the stereotypical 1920’s woman in the authors perspective?” allows me to explore the female characters in two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular novels, which I read throughout my summer vacation. Both of these novels have a similar setting and many of the characters in both plots are similar in several ways. I decided to investigate this area
F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalised in his works the spirit of the Jazz Age and the fading away of the Victorian nineteenth century culture. His depiction of the 1920s as a time of decadence, crumbling of old certainties and economy shifting towards the late-capitalism is exuberant and compelling. As a social commentator, he tried to capture this passing moment, the mood of frivolity, hedonism, turning away from the grimness of the war and the hope for a new consumer paradise of 1920s. In Fitzgerald’s