THE "JAZZ AGE"
Some of America's finest novelists began to write in the 1920s, or the "Jazz
Age", as this decade is sometimes termed. Older authors such as Theodore Dreiser
and Ellen Glasgow were still writing, but new authors wrote with new attitudes and
styles. Most of the serious novelists critically analyzed American society and ways of
life and tried to depict Americans as they really were. F. Scott Fitzgerald caught the
restless spirit of the 1920s in his
The Great Gatsby. Ernest Hemingway depicted war
and disillusionment in his
The Sun Also Rises and
A Farewell to Arms. With his
direct, unadorned style and forceful dialogue, Hemingway set a pattern for much
future American literature. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize
for Literature, satirized the American businessman and small town in his
Main Street
and
Babbitt. His style was mediocre, but his work vividly dissected a large section of
American life.
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