EN 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Brooks Brothers, Onomatopoeia, Unbridled
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In babylon revisited, charlie wales"s wife dies by drinking or by locking her out of the house and she catches a cold ( heart problems are vague ) Also the story opens in paris (romantic, like hemingway) Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack in his 40s, he actually makes money with his writing, which is not normal now (unless you"re in the movie industry) Midwesterner boy who wants to be a writer, wants to marry zelda but she says no (needs wealth) Zelda marries him after he publishes his first book this side of paradise because it makes bank. Friends with hemingway (but zelda thought he was sleeping with hemingway) Paris was this vibrant time of cultures and artistic geniuses. This was a period of time of young people that sought out culture, drinking, partying, and all that (the roaring 20s) Modernism = period of literature that runs roughly from 1914 to 1945.
