USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN POLITICS IN THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Famous for writing The Great Gatsby, which revealed the negative side of the 1920s’ happiness and freedom. Also responsible for coining the term “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s.
A
F. Scott Fitzgerald
B
Sinclair Lewis
C
R.L. Stein
D
Ernest Hemingway
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.-died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925).

Detailed explanation-2: -Jazz grew out of the era’s ragtime music, and its influence was not restricted to the musical arena. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald labeled the period from the end of the Great War to the Great Depression as the “Jazz Age” as much for the cultural change it brought about as the music that defined it.

Detailed explanation-3: -In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald exposed the excesses of the 1920s-a prosperous age in which many Americans came to enjoy the blessings of consumerism and excess, only to see it all crash around them with the Great Depression that arrived in 1929.

Detailed explanation-4: -In The Great Gatsby (1925) the author depicts the life in the so-called “Roaring Twenties”. 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 .

Detailed explanation-5: -When was The Great Gatsby Written? Fitzgerald began writing the story in 1924 while living abroad in Paris. He set out to capture the American Dream in a way that would transcend the ideas of everyday life.

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