Seminar paper from the year 1994 in the subject American Studies - Literature grade: Good
University of Frankfurt (Main) (Institute for England - und American Studies) language:
English abstract: There are many things that can be said about Fitzgerald like about most
people who make themselves known by the artistic craft. He is above all the first person who
comes to mind talking about literature in the Twenties. Owing to his novels and stories where
he captured the nostalgia the spirit of that time is still very vivid even in our modern era.
In his narrative The Ice Palace which appeared in the short story collection Flappers and
Philosophers in 1920 the reader is introduced to the problem of mental and emotional
difference of people living in the Nothern and Southern American states. Fitzgerald thematizes
several different problems in his short story but the main and crucial theme we discover which
at the same time is the topic of this analyis is the quest for identity of the female
protagonist.
