F.SCOTT FITZGERALD CONTEXT
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- F . Scott Fitzgerald
- born September 24, 1896
- enrolled at Princeton in 1913
- didn't graduate
- enlisting in the army in 1917, as World War I neared its end.
- didn't graduate
- met and fell in love with a wild 17yr old beauty named Zelda Sayre
- agreed to marry him
- desire for wealth, fun, and leisure led her to delay their wedding until he could prove a success
- agreed to marry him
- fell into a wild, reckless life-style of parties & decadence, while trying to please Zelda
- Fitzgerald battled alcoholism
- died of a heart attack, 44 in 1940
- Fitzgerald battled alcoholism
- 1920s America, an era that he dubbed “the Jazz Age.”
- Prohibition - 1919
- gangsters evolved & “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor thrived
- flappers
- gangsters evolved & “speakeasies”—secret clubs that sold liquor thrived
- WW1
- the generation that fought the war turned to wild extravagant living to compensate
- Prohibition - 1919
- Jazz, Ragtime and Broadways became popular
- automobiles became ore accessible - luxury/wealth
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