American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1404 short lesson, about 20 seconds
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
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The idea
Fitzgerald named the Jazz Age and lived inside it, publishing early, marrying Zelda Sayre, spending faster than he earned, and writing stories for magazines to pay for it. His subject is money: who has it, who has newly got it, and what the difference does to people.
In practice
The man who named the decade.
Where people slip
His subject is class, told through money.
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