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The Roaring ’20s, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, and what they mean to YOU!!!
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The Roaring ’20s social changes: literature technology prohibition
music fashion lifestyles women’s rights
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Business in the ’20s high employment stable prices
steady business rate stock market yielding high returns
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Rich and Poor in the ’20s 1922: top 1% of population held 32% of nation’s wealth 1929: top 1% of population held 38% of nation’s wealth “the rich get richer and the poor get … children”
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Old Money in the ’20s inherited wealth of ESTAB-LISHED upper-class families
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New Money in the ’20s nouveau riche
acquired wealth within one generation and spent it conspicuously “old money” looked down on “new money”
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Jazz Age --- the ’20s jazz music jazzy atmosphere
prohibition brought jazz musicians from New Orleans up north jazz became “soundtrack of rebellion”
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Jazz Age --- the ’20s flappers --- typical young girls bobbed hair
shortened skirts rolled stockings powdered knees danced the nights away doing the Charleston
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Jazz Age --- the ’20s slang --- gam: a girl’s leg all wet: wrong
bee’s knees: cool person bump off: to murder dumb dora: a stupid girl gam: a girl’s leg flat tire: a dull, boring person hooch: bootleg liquor torpedo: a hired gunman
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Jazz and Gatsby “yellow cocktail music” --- Gatsby jazz and ragtime
“Rhapsody in Blue” mixed jazz and classical Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington
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Lifestyles in the ’20s no more Victorian values --- now: flappers
independent women gaiety increasing wealth social mobility increased alcohol consumption
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Women’s Rights in the ’20s
women’s suffrage 19th Amendment (1920) changing attitudes + changing fashions = new woman (Jordan Baker in Gatsby)
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Prohibition in the ’20s 18th Amendment (1919)
forbade making, selling, importing, or exporting of alcohol bootleggers sold, bought, consumed alcohol GANGSTERS
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Technology in the ’20s “automobilization” --- cars were available for many for 1st time magazines radios and ads “talkies”
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Modernism in the ’20s rejection of Romanticism and Victorianism
World War I “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot the Valley of Ashes in The Great Gatsby
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Modernism in the ’20s mechanization and industrialization cars
new fashion mass entertainment development of cinema mass media and ads
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F. Scott Fitzgerald family was prominent, but not rich
attended Princeton; dropped out fell in love with Zelda Sayre; couldn’t afford to marry her
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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise to get money to marry Zelda became a huge success wrote “money-making fiction” at $4k a story (equal to $50k today)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald couple illustrated “the Jazz Age”
had Scotty, a daughter wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925;was poorly received Zelda had affair
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F. Scott Fitzgerald tried to clean up reputation as a drunk
Zelda became mentally unstable moved to Hollywood as screenwriter
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F. Scott Fitzgerald died almost forgotten at age 45
Zelda died in 1948 in mental hospital fire became “literary giant” in the ’60s
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Literature in the ’20s authors wrote about personal lives as “knowable” Gatsby very autobiographical Fitzgerald was very influenced by Modernist theories
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Modernism / Romanticism
Nick Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby setting: 1920s, East Egg, West Egg, NYC characters:
Nick Carraway (narrator) Tom and Daisy Buchanan Jordan Baker Jay Gatsby George and Myrtle Wilson
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Recap: The ’20s prohibition, speakeasies, bootlegging, gangsters
Jazz Age, dancing, flappers, women’s rights
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THE END!
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