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 ===The Cultural Context of the 1930s===
+What is the cultural context for Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the 1930s? Do
+authors reflect the struggles of their age or simply their own struggles? We
+would answer both, surely. The economic and social angst of the 1930s—
+considerable on any metric—can not easily be divorced from one person’s
+psychological angst. We remember that this was the middle of the Great Depression, and although the Great War was two decades previous, another
+greater War seemed increasingly inevitable.
+On a different level, the 18th Amendment had been repealed in December 1933, so alcohol was once more legal in America. Ironically, Hampl points out that, just as Fitzgerald’s “Crack-Up” articles were appearing, the first Alcoholics Anonymous groups were beginning to meet. There was no causal relationship, but as Hampl suggests, “no cultural change happens in a vacuum” {{sfn|Hampl|2012|pp=108}}. At the very least, there was “a shared landscape” {{sfn|Hampl|2012|pp=108}}. Through these AA groups, America was introduced to a new kind of secular confessional, a different kind of personal storytelling—one that nearly a century later is still very much with us.<sup>19</sup>
+What of the phrase “nervous breakd
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