1. F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Roaring Twenties
A Crazy Guy for Crazy Times

2. F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Early Years
Born in Minnesota in 1896, Died in California in 1940
Attended St. Paul Academy and graduated Princeton in 1917
Joined the Army during WWI, but the war ended before he was sent to Europe
Began writing for advertising firm and publishing short stories

3. His Personal Life
Married Zelda Sayre, a wealthy young socialite in 1920
Lived in New York and became a big celebrity – lived the big life
Zelda became schizophrenic in early 1930 – lived in mental institutions
Became an alcoholic
Died after a heart attack at the age of 44

4. Fitzgerald’s Literary Career
Published four novels
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender Is the Night (1934)
The Last Tycoon - unfinished but published upon his death
- “Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy.”

5. Prosperity! Music! Drinking! (Illegally!)
Question: What had just ended before the 1920s began?
“Back to Normal”
Politicians began to play the “Politics of Prosperity” What might this mean?
The women’s movement got the right for women to vote in 1921
But the temperance movement was also responsible for…

6. Prohibition (The Noble Experiment) 1920-1933
Define “prohibit”
The 18th Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of…
The Volstead Act of 1919 – 0.5%
WCTU and the Anti-Saloon League
5. Speakeasies spring up – What the heck is a speakeasy?
6. Prohibition and crime- Al Capone, for example

7. FLAPPERS! FLAPPING!
The term "flapper", referred to a "new breed" of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered "decent" behavior. The flappers were seen as brash in their time for wearing makeup, drinking hard liquor, and smoking.