30 pages • 1 hour read
F. Scott FitzgeraldA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Fitzgerald was a member of the so-called Lost Generation, a group of expatriate artists in the interwar period who exerted a profound influence on culture and ideas. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway. Benjamin Button’s progress through life is marked by an alternating succession of war and peacetime, a reflection of the worldview shaping Fitzgerald and other postwar authors.
World War I was a cataclysm that defined the first decades of the 20th century. Millions of soldiers and civilians were killed, tens of millions more were injured, and countless scores on top of that were traumatized. The war inaugurated an era of technological and chemical warfare, contributing to the distinctly dehumanizing character of the conflict.
Fitzgerald, unlike his friend Hemingway, did not see combat. He enlisted and was mobilized to Alabama for training, but Armistice Day arrived before he was deployed overseas. The near-miss with the conflict colored his view of war and influenced his depictions of it in “Benjamin Button” and other works, including The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. Scholars have devoted considerable attention to Fitzgerald’s relationship with Hemingway, including the differences in their depictions of war and masculinity. Scholar James H.
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Babylon Revisited
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crazy Sunday
F. Scott Fitzgerald
May Day
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Winter Dreams
F. Scott Fitzgerald