F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories: Social Types and Dramatic Tension - Lecture 12

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories: Social Types and Dramatic Tension - Lecture 12

Explore the concept of "social types" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories through this insightful lecture from Yale University's "Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner" course. Delve into four of Fitzgerald's famous works: "The Rich Boy," "Babylon Revisited," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," and "Bernice Bobs Her Hair." Examine how these stories represent generic identities as forms of social reality, and analyze the dramatic tension created by characters' conformity to or deviation from idealized social types. Investigate the sociology of types, Yale's role as a social marker, and the interplay between social profiles and both large-scale and small-scale drama in Fitzgerald's narratives.