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    The document provides biographical information on several American writers from the 1920s including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neill. It discusses their works, styles, and themes relating to the postwar period, modernism, and social issues of the time. Key events and works mentioned include The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, U.S.A. trilogy, Of Mice and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. The document also briefly profiles the playwright Susan Glaspell and her work Trifles,

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    The document provides biographical information on several American writers from the 1920s including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neill. It discusses their works, styles, and themes relating to the postwar period, modernism, and social issues of the time. Key events and works mentioned include The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, U.S.A. trilogy, Of Mice and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. The document also briefly profiles the playwright Susan Glaspell and her work Trifles,

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    Fitzgerald

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    The document provides biographical information on several American writers from the 1920s including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Eugene O'Neill. It discusses their works, styles, and themes relating to the postwar period, modernism, and social issues of the time. Key events and works mentioned include The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, U.S.A. trilogy, Of Mice and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Long Day's Journey Into Night. The document also briefly profiles the playwright Susan Glaspell and her work Trifles,

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    Fitzgerald

    1920 parties

    1920 negative consequences

    No battles, future wife met at Montgomery

    This side of paradise – college life

    24 rich and famous

    Floppers and philosophers collection

    Friends with Hemingway

    Alcoholic

    Wife mental breakdown

    Heart attack

    Great Gatsby

    *First person narration

    *Tragic story

    *Subjective account

    *Non-linear narrative

    *Writes the novel two years after the events

    *Reinvention of the south

    *Gatsby has to become rich

    *Illusion of the American dream

    *New money vs old

    Hemingway

    *Ambulance driver

    *The sun also rises first novel

    *Iceberg principle

    *Masculine things

    *Men without women

    *Farewell to Arms

    *For whom the bell tolls


    *Activist against war

    *Old man and the sea – Pulitzer and Nobel

    The Sun also rises

    *Jake Barnes

    *Journalist

    *War caused physical and mental pain

    *Wants to go to south America

    *wants something more

    *didn’t fight in the war

    *Drinking partying

    *Brett hot girl, in love with jake, can’t be together. Nurse

    *Everyone is broken

    *Jake plans a trip

    John Dos Passos

    *First leftist then conservative

    *ambulance driver during ww1

    *Becomes a journo then stars writing fiction

    *Three soldiers

    * USA trilogy

    * 20 century America

    * The characters are victims of their circumstances

    * Time around Spanish-american war

    * Tone: pessimisctic critical satiric

    * Language: the speech of the people

    * Blends fiction and nonfiction hybridity

    *The newsreel technique verbal collage , mixes newspaper headlines slogans political speeches

    *camera eye: makes poetry out of the feelings of the author

    *biography sections: brief sections about public figures of the time

    *To highlight the significance of the individuals experience, to show how the modern life overwhelms
    the individual
    John Steinbeck

    *Mixes modernism and realism

    *Traditional village communities

    *Set in California

    *Pulitzer and Nobel

    *Tortilla Flat- Mexican America culture

    *of mice and man- farm workers

    *Great depression

    Jo

    Zora Neale Hurston

    *all black town preacher father

    *no racism growing up

    *Harvard

    *Drenched in might New York published

    *Mules and Men collection of tales and songs from African-american culture

    *Work rediscovered only after her death

    *She tought that black people were already uplifted

    WilliamFaulkner

    Dropped out of school early

    Childhood families sex race obsession time the past the south the modern world

    Yoknapatawpha county

    Soldiers pay

    Mosquitoes

    Sound and fury

    As I lay dying

    Absalom absaolm

    American drama

    Had a slow development

    Broadway influence 1820-30s powerful position

    Mostly eye candy plays popular with regular folk


    Susan Glaspell

    Journalist writer theatrical producer actor

    Married George Cram Cook

    The Glory of the Conquered

    Trifles

    Allison’s room

    Trifles

    Based on a real murder case

    John Wright murdered

    Mrs. Wright never seen but the main character and suspect

    Men cannot solve the murder and blinded by misogyny

    The women crack the case

    Wright killed his wife’s pet bird so she offed him

    Eugene O Neil

    Alcoholic restless

    Searched for gold

    Left his pregnant wife and returned 11 years later

    Crude slangy language

    Used his experience upon sea

    Long days journed

    Released after his death

    Takes place in the living room

    About people suffering

    Failures of the American Dream

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