Finish Fitzgerald biography

What did you find most striking about the intersection between his art and his life? Write about a page and then discuss.



Without persistent effort, time itself becomes an ally of the insurgent and primitive forces of irrational emotionalism and social destruction.

What do you think the author meant?

How might it apply to certain current events in the world today?

Rhetoric Powerpoint 


What do you think that he means by insurgent and why do you think that he uses it to describe the forces of irrational emotionalism.

What do you think he means by irrational emotionalism?
Does he identify examples or results of irrational emotionalism?  If not, can we decipher what he might consider an example?

Why is irrational emotionalism described as primitive?