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
Name: Sui Xin (Shirley) UID: 3035030511 Final Essay for The American City (AMER 2015) Instructor: Dr. Selina Lai-Henderson Topic one: “My Lost City” Romantic Illusion and Disillusionment in the “Roaring Twenties” The Roaring Twenties was the period of American in 1920s after the World War I with terrific economic and cultural dynamism. Prosperity in economy encouraged the appearance of various unique social phenomena like flappers, jazz music, the worship of consumerism and amusing; and
Women’s right The 1920’s allowed women to rise up against the stereotype of what the women should be like. Secret meetings were held in order to improve the rights of women, as men felt that they were inferior. Women’s right made a strong impact on women during 1920’s that allowed them to use different approaches to gain more freedom. Before the 1920, women have traditional of having long hair and wearing clothes that doesn't expose that skin from the body. The only allowable job for women was
blossoming of African American culture, spanning between the 1920’s and 30’s. It was an artistic, literary, as well as an intellectual movement that kindled the new cultural identity and brought about many things like jazz, blues, dance, poetry, and musical theater. In the decades following World War I, a myriad of African Americans migrated to the industrial North from the economically depressed South, which is known as “The Great Migration”(Essay par.1). The recently migrated artists, writers, actors
Imagine yourself living in the Roaring Twenties. It was considered the golden decade during 1920’s. During this time, America was full of growth, prosperity, and was considered a new step into the future. Cars were built to go faster, and almost everyone was wealthy. It was a time full of exciting parties with the flapper girls, and a careless amusing time. The wealthy were obsessed with money, fame, materialistic items which made them turn into shallow and vain people. They drove fancy automobiles