After World War I the people of the world faced what is now called the roaring 20’s. The 1920’s is referred to as the biggest, the loudest and the brightest; it began with one calamity, World War I, and ended with another calamity, World War II (Rayburn). The youth of this time period can be described easily with one word: rebellious. This was mostly a result of the disillusionment that was brought out due to the war. This generation is often referred to as the “Lost Generation.” There was more time to kill as the average work week went from 60 hours per week down to 48 hours per week. The workers wages were also increasing, providing more money for these young people to dispose of at their leisure. Greed is another word to describe this time era. People craved and the

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. After high school, rather than attending college, Hemingway went to work as a journalist for the Kansas City Star Newspaper. He was also a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I, but was severely wounded. After recovering from his wound in Italy, Hemingway settled in Paris, France, where his serious writing career began. In American literature Hemingway stressed two key principles: one, the importance of authentic experience in his work and two, the “Hemingway Hero” (IGD). The “Hemingway Hero” is the character who plays the game of life, even though defeat is inevitable. The Sun Also Rises was Hemingway’s first major novel published in 1926.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Unlike Hemingway who went straight to work, Fitzgerald attended Princeton University for a few years before dropping out in 1917. He then married a flapper, Zelda Sayre. Fitzgerald is credited with possibly even naming this era “The Jazz Age.” His writing techniques portrayed the wonderfully, fun times of the 20’s, but at the same time predicted the grim future; that everything good must come to an end. F. Scott Fitzgerald focused on the American dream and this is apparent in his novel masterpiece, The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald also depicts the rebellious young adults of the roaring 20’s in his novel The Great Gatsby. It begins with Nick Carraway moving into an area on Long Island called West Egg. There is a West Egg and an East Egg. The difference of the two is West Egg is mostly people of “new” money, with very little social standing and East Egg is wealthy, upper-class people of high social rank. Jay Gatsby is Nick’s mysterious neighbor in West Egg. Nick has connections with people in East Egg; his cousin Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom Buchanan and Jordan Baker, a good friend of Daisy. The group becomes friends and throughout the novel they are viewed as leisurely relaxing or partying; seldom are they at work. Jay Gatsby throws remarkable parties, only inviting certain people. He befriends Nick once he finds out that Nick is related to Daisy; Daisy being the love of Gatsby’s life. Daisy and Gatsby soon find themselves tangled in a web of emotions and physical pleasures. Tom is also having an affair with Myrtle Wilson. When Myrtle is run over and killed, someone claims they saw Gatsby’s car commit the crime. It was Daisy driving however. Myrtle’s husband George does not know this. One day while Gatsby is relaxing in his p

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