Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Spring 2017
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English Literature
Committee Chair
Christopher Schedler
Second Committee Member
Laila Abdalla
Third Committee Member
Christine Sutphin
Abstract
The Lost Generation was forced to develop their own principles regarding gender identity in an environment of ever-shifting cultural norms, which called into question all of their predetermined ideas on femininity, masculinity, and the ways in which members of the opposite sex should interact with one another. Although much of their writing is set amid and seems to embrace the evolving social culture of the early twentieth-century, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway largely criticize the gender revolution of the 1920s and blame evolving gender roles for the collapse of their generation. Nevertheless, I argue that Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s cultural critique ironically contributed to the growing popularity of the same transgressive gender roles that they sought to criticize.
Recommended Citation
Killeen, Mary, "Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway" (2017). All Master's Theses. 669.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/669
Language
English