The Consequences of the Great Depression in Regard to F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited"

Dossier / Travail de Séminaire , 2014 , 14 Pages , Note: 1,7

Philologie Américaine - Littérature

“Stocks rise and fall, people load or work, but they go on forever.” This quotation is from American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Babylon Revisited”, which was published in 1931. The short story includes expatriate themes of the early 20th century in Paris that shapes the story of Charlie Wales, a businessman who had a lavish lifestyle before he lost his family and wealth after the crash. The Great Depression that came along with the crash changed the lives of wealthy Americans for the worse, who lived in splendour in Paris before.

This term paper will analyze the consequences of the Great Depression shown in “Babylon Revisited” and how life, on the contrary, was in the Roaring Twenties. As the quotation above explains, everything, such as the stocks and the people go on forever and so does Charlie Wales.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Paris in the Roaring Twenties as to “Babylon Revisited”

3. Consequences of the Great Depression

4. Conclusion

• Université: University of Stuttgart
• Note: 1,7
• Auteur: Ezgi Nisli (Auteur)
• Année de publication: 2014
• Pages: 14
• N° de catalogue: V418514
• ISBN (ebook): 9783668677029
• ISBN (Livre): 9783668677036
• Langue: anglais
• mots-clé: Fitzgerald, Great Depression, Babylon Revisited, Uni Stuttgart, Anglistik, Amerikanistik, F.Scott Fitzgerald, 20th century Literature, Jazz Age, Expats in Paris, Babylon, 20s, Paris, Midnight in Paris, Alcoholism, Zelda Fitzgerald, Stock Market Crash, stock market, poverty, economy, decay, loss, Wirtschaftskrise, Amerika, Weltwirtschaftskrise, 1929, regret, family, Alkoholismus