In Dorothy Parker's 1922 poem 'The Flapper,' the flapper's ways are attributed to God and which male author?

• A. Scott Fitzgerald
• B. Ernest Hemingway
• C. William Faulkner
• D. T. S. Eliot

Answer: (A)

This item tests your familiarity with a famous line from Parker's poem that ties the flapper to divine origin and to a single Jazz Age author. The poem presents the flapper as a modern, liberated figure and ends by crediting Scott Fitzgerald as the author who captured that vibe, effectively linking the flapper to his literary world of parties, glamour, and new social norms. Fitzgerald is the author most closely associated with depicting and shaping the era’s chic, rebellious energy, which is why he’s the correct reference. The other writers—Hemingway, Faulkner, Eliot—were influential in different strands of modernist literature, but Parker’s line explicitly names Fitzgerald. So the best answer is Scott Fitzgerald.