1. The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. The Roaring Twenties – 1920’s
Marked by a general feeling of discontinuity (a gap or disjointedness) associated with a break with traditions
Amusement, fun and lightness were cultivated in jazz and dancing, in defiance of the horrors of World War I, which remained present in people's minds. The period is also often called "The Jazz Age.”

4. The Roaring Twenties
Time of economic prosperity preceding the Great Depression
Mass-produced vehicles became common throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Radio and movie industries boomed at this time.

6. The Roaring Twenties
Urbanization reached a climax in the 1920s.
For the first time, more Americans and Canadians lived in cities of 2,500 or more people than in small towns or rural areas.
New York City and Chicago were popular centers of culture.

8. The Lost Generation
The Lost Generation was a group of young people who came out of World War I disillusioned and cynical (distrustful, skeptical) about the world.
Famous literary members were Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

9. The Jazz Age
Jazz became associated with all things modern, sophisticated, and also decadent (immoral, corrupt).
The most popular dances were the Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, the Charleston, and Lindy Hop.

11. Women in the 1920’s
The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
More women began to desire successful careers of their own.
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities

13. Flappers
Young, rebellious,
middle-class women
Donned slinky knee-length dresses, which exposed their legs and arms
The hairstyle of the decade was a chin-length bob.

14. Prohibition
In 1920, the manufacture, sale, import and export of alcohol was prohibited by the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in an attempt to alleviate various social problems.
Bootlegging - making, transporting and/or selling illegal alcoholic liquor or copyrighted material

16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Attended Princeton University.
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Fitzgerald left college for officers’ training school, yearning for heroic adventure on the battlefields of France.
He was never sent overseas.

17. Fitzgerald’s Marriage
He fell deeply in love with Zelda Sayre, a high-spirited and gorgeous woman whose escapades had scandalized her hometown of Montgomery.
Zelda married Scott. The newlyweds moved to New York and became the center of a round of parties.
In 1930, the tenth year of their marriage, Zelda suffered a mental breakdown and spent the rest of her life in and out of asylums.

19. Fitzgerald’s Work Most famous – The Great Gatsby
Other titles – This Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night
After publication of Tender Is the Night, he struggled with mounting debts, failing health, drinking, and depression. When he could, he continued to do serious work.

20. The Novel
The Great Gatsby was published on April 10, 1925.
It is a critique of the American Dream and unrestrained materialism in the U.S. after World War I.

21. The American Dream
The ability, through participation in the resonant society and culture of the United States, to bring prosperity to oneself
Includes the opportunity for one's children to grow up and receive an American education and its consequent career opportunities