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<p>Breaking Down Fitzgerald: Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Chapter 1: Fitzgerald’s Life 5</b></p> <p>Childhood and Princeton (189–1917) 6</p> <p>Meeting Zelda and Early Success (1918–1924) 8</p> <p>The Great Gatsby and European Travels (1924–1931) 10</p> <p>Tender Is the Night and “The Crack- Up” (1931–1937) 13</p> <p>Hollywood and The Last Tycoon (1937–1940) 16</p> <p>Further Reading 18</p> <p>Further Viewing 18</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: Literary and Cultural Context 19</b></p> <p>The First World War and Its Aftermath 19</p> <p>Modernism and a Changing Literary Landscape 22</p> <p>The Roaring Twenties 24</p> <p>The 1930s and the Great Depression 26</p> <p>The United States versus Europe 28</p> <p>Changes in Hollywood 32</p> <p>Further Reading 34</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: Early Novels: This Side of Paradise(1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) 35</b></p> <p>This Side of Paradise: Composition 37</p> <p>This Side of Paradise: Synopsis 40</p> <p>The Beautiful and Damned: Composition 42</p> <p>The Beautiful and Damned:Synopsis 43</p> <p>Further Reading 45</p> <p>Further Viewing 45</p> <p><b>Chapter 4: The Great Gatsby (1925) 47</b></p> <p>Composition 49</p> <p>Synopsis 50</p> <p>Themes 53</p> <p>Structure 54</p> <p>Motifs 55</p> <p>The Green Light 55</p> <p>West Egg versus East Egg 57</p> <p>The Valley of Ashes 58</p> <p>The Automobile 59</p> <p>Characters 61</p> <p>Jay Gatsby 61</p> <p>Daisy Buchanan 64</p> <p>Tom Buchanan 67</p> <p>Myrtle Wilson 69</p> <p>George Wilson 71</p> <p>Jordan Baker 72</p> <p>Nick Carraway 73</p> <p>Further Reading 76</p> <p>Further Viewing 76</p> <p>Further Listening 76</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: Later Novels: Tender Is the Night (1934) and The Last Tycoon (1941) 77</b></p> <p>Tender Is the Night: Composition 78</p> <p>Tender Is the Night: Synopsis 80</p> <p>Tender Is the Night: Interpretations 83</p> <p>The Last Tycoon: Synopsis 84</p> <p>The Last Tycoon: Reflections on an Unfinished Novel 85</p> <p>Further Reading 87</p> <p>Further Viewing 87</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Short Stories and Essays 89</b></p> <p>Short Stories 90</p> <p>“The Ice Palace” (1920) 90</p> <p>“May Day” (1920) 91</p> <p>“Winter Dreams” (1922) 91</p> <p>“Jacob’s Ladder” (1927) 92</p> <p>“The Last of the Belles” (1929) 93</p> <p>“Babylon Revisited” (1931) 94</p> <p>Essays 95</p> <p>Further Reading 96</p> <p>Further Viewing 97</p> <p>Further Listening 97</p> <p>Conclusion 99</p> <p>Bibliography 100</p> <p>Index 103</p>

<p><b>HELEN M. TURNER</b> has a PhD from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. She has taught in a variety of schools and universities in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Sweden. She is also an active researcher with particular interests in American and South African literature. She has published on Richard Yates, Tom Wolfe, and Archibald MacLeish.</p>

<p><b><i>Students and general readers will jump into the exciting Jazz Age through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fascinating novels</b></i></p> <p>Glamourous parties, big dreams, and spectacular falls from grace await readers of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s acclaimed works. His novels—<i>This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night,</i> and the unfinished <i>Last Tycoon</i>—are some of the most important books written about the American experience. In this book, you’ll find out why.</i> <p>Learn about Fitzgerald’s dramatic life: his marriage to the talented but unpredictable Zelda Fitzgerald, his years in Europe, and how the movies changed his career. Discover how he wrote such compelling novels and explore broader themes and symbols in his work as they relate to society today. <i>Breaking Down Fitzgerald </i>leads you through an investigation of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age America and takes you on a fun thematic tour through Fitzgerald’s fiction. <p>This is the only book of its kind aimed to help middle and secondary students experience the wonder and delight of Fitzgerald’s writing. Young readers will come away with an understanding of why F. Scott Fitzgerald remains one of the great American voices, renowned around the world.

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