Characters in American novels of the 20th century

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald changed America through his novel The Great Gatsby. “Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the most capable, engaging and insightful writers of the 20th century. He is one of the truly great American storytellers, an inspiration for writers and seen as one of truly great troubled geniuses. In addition, The Great Gatsby is marked as one of the great American novels, if not the Great American Novel. (An American Icon 6).” F. Scott Fitzgerald used the world around him,…

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influential American novelists of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald was born September 24 of 1896, as the third child of five. He began his primary college experience at Princeton, and wrote for the college newspaper there. His education did not last long, though, as he dropped out, due to him flunking all of his classes. Instead, he chose to join the army. After he returned, he met a girl named Zelda Sayre at a country club party and fell in love with her. As time went on and Fitzgerald’s novels became…

The novel takes place at an army base in the U.S. state of Georgia. Private Ellgee Williams, a solitary man full of secrets and desires, has served for two years and is assigned to stable duty. After doing yard work at the home of Capt. Pender ton, he sees the captain’s wife nude and becomes obsessed with her. Capt. Weldon Pender ton and his wife Leonora, a feeble-minded Army brat, have a fiery relationship and she takes in many lovers. Leonora’s current lover, Major Morris Langdon, lives…

There are many black writers who have been interested in the cause of the cultural emancipation of the African Americans. They also had a stand against the slavery system and the unjust American society. Resultantly, that Harlem became the sacred place of the Negro and the center of the black community in America. The Harlem community becames the center and the Godfather for African American people. Many stories of protest and struggle were written by writers and black critics, some of them…

In Upton Sinclair's novel “The Jungle” which published in 1906, many of tragic things happen to Jurgis Rudkus and his family as they move from Lithuania to Chicago, and try to make a new life happen for them in America. Rudkus and his family which includes Ona Lukoszaute, his wife, Teta Elzbieta Lukoszaute, Ona’s stepmother, Marija Berczynskas, Ona’s cousin, and Dede Antanas Rudku, Jurgis’s father. All expect to be happier and live better in America because that’s the dream, right? They find out…

this decade was The Lost Generation of writers after the war called the Jazz Age witnessed a flowering of African-American music, as well as art and literature in the Harlem Renaissance. By the end of the decade, the United States was up against troubled times. The stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression ultimately shattered the carefree mood of the 1920’s.” (American History,…

Waukegan, Illinois, would one day become one of the most celebrated 20th- and- 21st century American genre writers. Ray Bradbury, who as a little boy, seemed to take an interest to his childhood. His captivating spirit later led him to write novels and short stories which included parts of his experiences as a boy. In his youth, he found himself intrigued with magicians and various readings of adventure and fantasy fiction novels. According to the editors at (BIO.), beginning at the age of…

literature, what makes them different is their story behind it. Harper Lee spent her career influencing American Literature by making readers question, do they possess the same type of power to represent what can be in the face of what really is. Lee’s lasting contribution was to bring a book to American Literature that gave readers a moral compass. Lee has her very own relations to American literature within her work that strongly impact the society. In high school, Lee found herself…

one thing present in every culture that never ceases to linger over the heads of humans: love. The twentieth century marks a huge transition in how the human race lives, in physical ways like technology and transportation, but also in how they feel or how they think they should feel. The people that walk this planet do not have the same mindset as those who are alive in the nineteenth century and prior to then. The idea of love- a fundamental motif in every person’s life- has evolved…