(PP. 55-59) Literature Section IV: Excerpts from "Echoes of the Jazz Age" → Analysis of "Echoes...: (ACADEC '25-'26)

Who created “Echoes of the Jazz Age”?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

When was “Echoes of the Jazz Age” created?

1931

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened too soon to write about?

The Jazz Age with perspective

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what would writers be suspected of for writing about the Jazz Age with perspective?

Premature arteriosclerosis

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what do many people succumb to when they happen upon any of the Jazz Age’s characteristic words?

Violent retching

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what describes the characteristic words of the Jazz Age?

Words which have since yielded in vividness to the coinages of the underworld

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what does Fitzgerald compare the death of the Jazz Age to?

The Yellow Nineties in 1902

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when were the Yellow Nineties dead?

1902

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” how did present writers look back at the Jazz Age?

With Nostalgia

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” why did writers look back at the Jazz Age with nostalgia?

It bore him up, flattered him and gave him more money than he dreamed of, simply for telling people that he felt as they did, that something had to be done with all the nervous energy stored up and unexpended in the War

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” how long was the Jazz Age?

10 years

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when did the Jazz Age leap to its spectacular death?

October 1929

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened around the same time as the Jazz Age dying?

The May Day riots in 1919

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when were the May Day riots?

1919

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” during the May Day 1919 riots, what did the police do?

Ride down the demobilized country boys gaping at the orators in Madison Square

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the police riding down the demobilized country boys gaping at the orators in Madison Square do?

Alienate the more intelligent young men from the prevailing order

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when does Fitzgerald say that America remembered the Bill of Rights?

When Mencken began plugging it

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” where did we know tyranny belonged?

The jittery little countries of South Europe

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” if goose-livered business men had a damaging effect on the government, why had America gone to war?

For J.P. Morgan’s loan

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened because we were tired of Great Causes?

There was no more than a short outbreak of moral indignation

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what typified the short outbreak of indignation?

Dos Passos’ Three Sodiers [sic]

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did Americans begin to have when the newspapers made melodrama out of such stories as Harding and the Ohio Gang or Sacco and Vanzetti?

Slices of the national cake and our idealism

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the newpspaers make melodrama out of?

Stories such as Harding and the Ohio Gang or Sacco Vanzetti

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the events of 1919 leave Americans?

Cynical rather than revolutionary, in spite of the fact that now we are all rummaging around in our trunks wondering where in hell we left the liberty cap—”I know I had it”— and the moujik blouse

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what were people rummaging in their trunks for?

The liberty cap—”I know I had it”— and the moujik blouse

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was especially characteristic of the Jazz Age?

That it had no interest in politics at all

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did Fitzgerald say it was an age of?

Miracles, art, excess, and satire

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what sat upon the throne of the U.S.?

A Stuffed Shirt, squirming to blackmail in a lifelike way

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” who hurried over to represent to us the throne of England?

A stylish young man

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did a world of girls yearn for?

The young Englishmen

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the old American do upon the advice of the female Rasputin?

He groaned in his sleep as he waited to be poisoned by his wife

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” who made the ultimate decision in our national affairs?

The female Rasputin

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what caused the style of man to pass to America?

Americans ordering suits by the gross in London, the Bond Street tailors perforce agreed to moderate their cut to the American long-waisted figure and loose-fitting taste

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when did Francis the First look to Florence to trim his leg?

The Renaissance

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” who looked to Florence to trim his leg?

Francis the First

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” who did Francis the First look to to trim his leg?

Florence

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did 17th century England do?

Aped the court of France

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened 50 years ago?

The German Guards officer bought his civilian clothes in London

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was the symbol of “the power that a man must hold and that passes from race to race”?

Gentlemen’s clothes

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what nation did Fitzgerald say was the most powerful?

The U.S.

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the U.S. do because they were isolated during the European War?

Combing the unknown South and West for folkways and pastimes, and there were more ready to hand

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the first social revelation create?

A sensation out of all proportion to its novelty

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” as far back as what year were the unchaperoned young people of the smaller cities discovering the mobile privacy of the automobile given to young Bill at 16 to make him “self-reliant”?

1915

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when had young Bill gotten an automobile?

When he was 16

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” why had young Bill gotten an automobile?

To make him “self-reliant”

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was at first a desperate adventure even under such favorable conditions?

Petting

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” as early as what year were there references to such sweet and casual dalliance in any number of the Yale Record or the Princeton Tiger?

1917

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was confined to the wealthier classes?

Petting in its more audacious manifestations

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when did the standard of petting prevail?

After the War

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did a kiss mean?

That a proposal was expected, as young officers in strange cities sometimes discovered to their dismay

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” in what year did the veil finally fall—the Jazz Age was in flower?

1920

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” how did the staider citizens of the republic catch their breaths when the wildest of all generations, shouldered Fitzgerald’s contemporaries out of the way?

Scarcely

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what generation dramatized flappers, corrupted its elders and eventually overreached itself less through lack of morals than through lack of taste?

The Jazz Age

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when would may one offer in exhibit?

1922

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when was the peak of the younger generation, for though the Jazz Age continued, it became less and less an affair of youth?

1922

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was the sequel to the Jazz Age like?

A children’s party taken over by the elders, leaving the children puzzled and rather neglected and rather taken aback

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” by what year had elders, tired of watching the carnival with ill-concealed envy, had discovered that young liquor will take the place of young blood, and with a whoop the orgy began?

1923

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the elders do in 1923?

Tired of watching the carnival with ill-concealed envy, had discovered that young liquor will take the place of young blood, and with a whoop the orgy began

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was a whoel race going on?

Hedonistic, deciding on pleasure

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what would have come about with or without prohibition?

The precocious intimacies of the younger generation

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what were the younger generation implicit in?

The attempt to adapt English customs to American conditions

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what’s an example of adapting English customs to American conditions?

Our South is a tropical and early maturing—it has never been part of the wisdom of France and Spain to let young girls go unchaperoned at 16 and 17

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” at what age were girls allowed to go unchaperoned?

16 or 17

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when did the general decision to be amused begin?

1921

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened to general decisions in 1921?

The general decision to be amused began with cocktail parties

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the word jazz in its progress toward respectability mean?

First sex, then dancing, then music

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what is the word jazz associated with?

A state of nervous stimulation, not unlike that of big cities behind the lines of a war

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” why does the War go on for the English?

Because all the forces that menace them are still active

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what classes spent a whole decade denying its existence even when its puckish face peered into the family circle?

People over 50

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the honest citizens of every class, who believed in strict public morality and were powerful enough to enforce the necessary legislation, did not know?

They would necessarily be served by criminals and quacks, and do not really believe it to-day

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what had rich righteousness always been able to buy?

Honest and intelligent servants to free the slaves or the Cubans

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened when the attempt of the rich righteousness had collapsed?

Our elders stood firm with all the stubbornness of people involved in a weak case, preserving their righteousness and losing their children

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what people never did a consciously dishonest thing in their lives?

Silver-haired women and men with fine old faces

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did silver-haired women and men with ifine old face assure each other?

In the apartment hotels of NY and Boston and Washington that “there’s a whole generation growing up that will never know the taste of liquor”

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the silver-haired women and men’s granddaughters pass around the boarding school?

The well-thumbed copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover around the boarding school and, if they get about at all, know the taste of gin or corn at 16

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the generation who reached maturity between 1875 and 1895 continue to believe?

What they want to believe

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what is contrary to populat opinion?

The movies of the Jazz Age had no effect upon its morals

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was the social attitude of the producers?

Timid, behind the times and banal

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what’s an example of the social attitude of the producers?

No picture mirrored even faintly the younger generation until 1923, when magazines had already started to celebrate it and it had long ceased to be news

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what came after a few feeble sputters?

Clara Bow in Flaming Youth

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the Hollywood hacks run to its cinematographic grave?

A few feeble sputters

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what happened to movies throughout the Jazz Age?

The movies got no farther than Mrs. Jiggs, keeping up with its most blatant superficialities

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was the Jazz Age served by?

Great filling stations of full of money

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” people had joined the dance?

Over 30 and below 50

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did the graybeards do?

Tread down the F.P.A

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what do the graybeards remember?

The uproar when in 1912 grandmothers of 40 tossed away their crutches and took lessons in the Tango and Castle-Walk

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what would a woman a dozen years later might do?

Pack the green Hat with her other affairs as she set of for Europe of New York, but Savonarola was too busy flogging dead horses in Augean stables of his own creation to notice

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did society, even in small cities, now dine in?

Separate chambers, and the sober table learned about the gay table only from hearsay

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was one of the former glories of the sober table?

The less sought-after girls who had become resigned to sublimating a probable celibacy, came across Freud and Jung in seeking their intellectual recompense and came tearing back into the fray

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” by what year had the universal preoccupation with sex had become a nuisance?

1926

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did a perfectly mated, contented young mother ask Fitzgerald’s wife?

Advice about “having an affair right away,” though she had no one especially in mind, “because don’t you think it’s sort of undignified when you get much over 30?”

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did bootleg Negro records with their phallic euphemisms make everything?

Suggestive, and simultaneously came a wave of erotic plays—young girls from finishing-schools packed the galleries to hear about the romance of being a Lesbian and George Jean Nathan protested

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did one young producer do?

Lost his head entirely, drank a beauty’s alcoholic bath-water and went to the penitentiary

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what contemporary producer was in prison?

Ruth Snyder had to be hoisted into it by the tabloids

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what did The Daily News hint at for Ruth Snyder?

Deliciously to gourmets, about “to cook, and sizzle, AND FRY!” in the electric chair

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” where had the gay elements of society been divided to?

One flowing towards Palm Beach and Deauville, and the other, much smaller, towards the summer Riviera

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what side of the gay elements of society could one get away with more on?

Summer Riviera

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” between what years were the great years of the Cap d’Antibes?

1926 to 1929

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” what was the Cap d’Antibes dominated by?

Europeans

In “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” when would anything went at Antibes?

1929, at the most gorgeous paradise for swimmers on the Mediterranean no one swam any more, save for a short hang-over dip at noon