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About the Author
Born-September 24, 1896
Died-December 21, 1940
Married Zelda
Sayre
Famous works include The Great Gatsby
The
Beautiful and the Damned
Tender is the Night
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Impact on Society
Fitzgerald named the
1920’s “The Jazz Age”
Wrote screenplays for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Created the The
Great Gatsby which is said to be the most accurate description of the 1920’s
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The Jazz Age
Prohibition was in effect
Dances such as
the Charleston were popular
Popular sayings included 23 Skidoo, Bee’s
Knees
Economy was in a “Boom”
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The Flappers
Flappers were women who rebelled against the
fashion and social norms of the early 1900’s.
They married
at a later age and drank and smoked inpublic
Flappers were known for their carefree lifestyles.
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Flapper Fashion
Flappers dressed in shapeless dresses that
came to the knee.
Dresses were made to look “boy-like”
Gender
bending was common. Women would try to make themselves look more man-like.
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Characters of The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby- The self-made
wealthy man who lives next door to Nick Carraway
and loves Daisy Buchanan
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Characters of The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway- the narrator,
Daisy’s cousin, Gatsby’s neighbor
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Characters in The Great Gatsby
Daisy Buchanan- married to
Tom, Gatsby’s love interest before the war, socialite
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Tom Buchanan- Daisy’s husband, has an affair with
Myrtle
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Myrtle Wilson- Tom’s woman in the city, married
to George
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Characters in The Great Gatsby
Tom Buchanan- Daisy’s husband,
has an affair with Myrtle
Myrtle Wilson- Tom’s woman in
the city, married to George
George Wilson- owns the gas station
Jordan Baker- Daisy’s friend, professional golfer
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Settings in The Great Gatsby
West Egg- where Nick
and Gatsby live, represents new money
East Egg- where Daisy
lives, the more fashionable area, represents old money
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Settings in The Great Gatsby
The City- New York
City, where the characters escape to for work and
play
The Valley of Ashes- between the City and West Egg, where Wilson’s
gas station is
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Symbols in The Great Gatsby
Green Light- at the
end of Daisy’s dock and visible from Gatsby’s mansion.
Represents Gatsby's hopes and dreams about Daisy.
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Symbols in The Great Gatsby
The Valley of Ashes-
the area between West Egg and New York City.
It is a desolate area filled with industrial waste. It represents the social and moral decay of society during the 1920’s. It also shows the negative effects of greed.
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Symbols in The Great Gatsby
The Eyes of Dr.
T. J. Ekleburg- A decaying billboard in the Valley
of Ashes with eyes advertising an optometrist. There are multiple proposed meanings, including the representation of God’s moral judgment on society.
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Important Quotes
“I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s
the best thing a girl can be in this
world, a beautiful little fool.”
Daisy’s description of her daughter
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” –the last line of the novel
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Important Quotes
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy-
they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated
back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made." – Nick’s description of Tom and Daisy
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The American Dream
Gatsby is the ideal image of
one who has achieved the American Dream.
What is the
American Dream and who has achieved it in our time?