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Exploring the Roaring '20s: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad

Delve into the expat experiences of Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris, analyzing their works, challenges of the time, and literary techniques. Discover more about Hemingway's Iceberg Theory and the allure of Paris for American writers.

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Exploring the Roaring '20s: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad

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  1. Hello, my friends. For today: • Expats in Paris • Library to get books • Anticipating The Sun Also Rises • Picturing Hemingway • Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory • Time to work on Gatsby outlines

  2. Why Leave America? • The 20s were booming. Why did many authors, like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, want to get out? • Prohibition – Substance abusers need substance • Censorship – Push back against women’s liberation • Moral Authority • Institutionalized Racism • Birth of KKK • Headquartered in Detroit to partner with Henry Ford • Nationalism/Anti-Immigration • Tulsa Race Riots of ‘21 • Troubled Economy • Credit and debt, no safety net • Isolationism – Backed out of League of Nations

  3. Why Paris? • What made this particular city so appealing? • No Prohibition • Synergy • All the artists were already there. New artists on the scene fed off the others • Center for artistic movements (Modernism)

  4. What were they after? • Debunking delusions • Remember Gatsby? The “rock of the world on the wing of a fairy”? This sentiment was seeping into many aspects of philosophy, psychology, art, music, literature, baking, etc. • Something(s) about American life at the times was disguising life as it truly was.

  5. To the library!

  6. Picturing Hemingway • http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/index-paris.htm

  7. Anticipating TSAR • What do we know about Hemingway? What do we think we know? • Remember our conversation about book titles for Gatsby. What does the title The Sun Also Rises conjure in your mind? How does it hit you as a jumping off point for this text? In what direction, as a reader, is it pointing you? • Consider the cover art • Page 99 analysis

  8. Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven - eighths of it under water for every part that shows . Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show.” • How this translates to Hemingway’s style is an almost complete absence of sentimentality.

  9. Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” • Observe pgs. 46-47 from “She must have been…” • It appears to be a pretty heated exchange, although it is without the cues that let the reader know exactly what is happening, cues like “he said angrily” or “I replied apologetically” or “I knew I should have laid off but felt the urge to keep prodding.” • Hemingway makes us do the work to fill in the gaps here? What do you think? • Now observe pg. 118 from “’I saw you out…’” • It appears they’re joking/teasing each other but none of that language is there…

  10. Gatsby Outline • I’m looking for: • Debatable thesis • >2 appropriate pieces of evidence • With conclusions supporting your thesis • Appropriate background, transitions • Basic format of an outline: • Intro • Body Paragraphs 1, 2, 3 • Conclusion

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