Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... Eliot for "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James, because Fitzgerald depicted the extolled grandest and most boisterous, reckless and merry-making scene" through what he knew or indirectly experienced and discovered the disillusionment that "a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken", what's more, he depicted the postwar unprecedented boom of material re...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The stock market crash in October of 1929 had a historical impact on American society, transforming the roaring twenties into the Great Depression. ... By naming the short story, "Babylon Revisited", the author subtly compares the city of Paris, the actual city in which the main character, Charlie, is visiting, to the great city of Babylon. The Bible describes Babylon as the city of sins and the great city of power, but the city suddenly came crashing down in the matter of one hour. ... The title "Babylon Revisited" implies that there will be a journey to witness the aftermath of the falling o...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The stock market crash in October of 1929 had a historical impact on American society, transforming the roaring twenties into the Great Depression. ... By naming the short story, "Babylon Revisited", the author subtly compares the city of Paris, the actual city in which the main character, Charlie, is visiting, to the great city of Babylon. The Bible describes Babylon as the city of sins and the great city of power, but the city suddenly came crashing down in the matter of one hour. ... The title "Babylon Revisited" implies that there will be a journey to witness the aftermath of the falling o...

• Word Count: 1051
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate