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What work is Langston Hughes's best known work?
What is easily the most recognizable work of the 1920s?
The Great Gatsby
Who is the narrator of the Great Gatsby?
Nick Carraway
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald's first book?
"This Side of Paradise".
What is the "Ten Commandments of Charm" about?
How a woman should act to attract a man.
What do Nick and Gatsby have in common?
They both come from poor families.
What is Zora Neale Hurston most well known for?
Writing "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
What is "Echoes of the Jazz Age" about?
About why the Jazz Age was remarkable and why its end was inevitable.
Who does Daisy describe as a brute?
Tom
Edna St. Vincent Millay explores early ideas of what ideology?
Feminism.
What poem is this stanza from, and who wrote it?
For we can still love the world, who find
A famished kitten on the step, and know
Recesses for it from the fury of the street,
Or warm torn elbow coverts.
"Chaplinesque" by Hart Crane.
What happens on Nick's 30th birthday?
Myrtle gets run over by a car.
What unique book did Katherine Anne Porter write?
"Rope".
What makes "Rope" so unique?
It completely replaces narration with dialogue.
Why does Daisy lack true love for Gatsby?
She is materialistic, she wants security, Gatsby is not from acceptable old money.