IMPORTANT QUESTIONS OF MEG-11 (Block-3 F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby)

by Team Guffo · Published 2018 · Updated 2021

Examine the literary context of Scott Fitzgerald with reference to his contemporary compatriots.
What do you understand by the terms ‘The Jazz Age’ and ‘The Lost Generation’?
What were the major political and social events that shaped the Twenties in America?
Show how American Literature was trying to find its own ‘Americanness’ in relation to the ‘expatriate sensibility’
Fitzgerald has often been called ‘The Novelist of Manners’ descending from Henry James. Do you agree? Give illustrations.