Francis Scott Fitzgerald became the mouthpiece of ideas and the spokesman of the mental mood of youth of the 1920s. Through the lips of the hero of the novel published here - 'On This Side of Paradise' (1920) - he announced that a generation had come for whom 'all the gods died, all wars died out, all faith was undermined.' Fitzgerald was the first to inform the world about the beginning of the 'century of jazz' with its carnival lifestyle, which he himself adhered to ...However, being a sensitive artist, he could not help but see the dual nature of this phenomenon. In his best novel The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald made it clear that the carnival of being naturally ends in the life bankruptcy of its participants.