ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age-a term he created and popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Gatsby shows the Jazz Age by depicting Gatsby’s luxurious parties. Accompanied by live jazz orchestras, they were typical for that period. Fitzgerald reflects on the material values and the struggle to get a higher social class in the book.

Detailed explanation-3: -F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely viewed as having been the inventor of the term jazz age. Numerous books, academic and otherwise, have proclaimed that Fitzgerald named the decade, coined the term, invented the phrase, and so on and so forth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The decade was named so due to the economic growth, technological change, and the loosening of social codes. It encouraged a lively youth culture focused around the automobile, jazz music, and bootleg liquor . Fitzgerald shows social injustices that were related to economic prosperity of that time.