期刊名称：Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
印刷版ISSN：1412-3320
电子版ISSN：2502-4914
出版年度：2002
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：109-121
DOI：10.24167/celt.v2i2.1079
语种：English
出版社：Soegijapranata Catholic University
摘要：Most of Fitzgerald's novels and stories start as a romance of love or a fantasy of extravagant glamour in representing his characters. Bernice Bobs Her Hair, however, suggests Fitzgerald’s different approach by reducing this element. Critics believe that it is simply because it is a short story, or maybe because it is more based on his personal concern about the society. Nevertheless, this work has surprised many people that latter become Fitzgerald’s unique characteristics in writing his fictions. Compared to other Fitzgerald’s work, Bernice’s settings and the interplay between its characters and the places they live are quite simple. However, this simplicity contains deceptive symbolism that replicates American culture in the twenties. Fitzgerald’s unparalleled representation of Jazz Age as a time of post war’s confusion as well as negative consequence of industrialism is brilliantly pictured in this story. Fitzgerald uses the twenties, the time setting of the story, as a source of imagery objects that reflects social trends and individual desires. Although he uses local and restricted settings for the action site of the story, the impression of America in the twenties can be strongly felt in this story. Such quality, the writer argues, proves the outstanding ability of Fitzgerald’s fiction in picturing the story with its complexities and sophistication that crosses the barrier of time and space. This article analyzes an old topic, but relatively a challenging subject in most of Fitzgerald’s fiction its connection to the nineteen twentiesof America. It tries to look at the dynamic of the women in the twenties not only from the view of Fitzgerald as an author, but is more likely through panoramic view of the social and psychological landscape of the time. The writer argues and confirms Fitzgerald's excellent aesthetic and philosophical quality in picturing cultural dynamic of a society.
关键词：Jazz Age; Fitzgerald; nineteen twenties of America
