1. Disillusion, Defiance and Discontent
Use your notes to find the answers for discussion.

2. Historical Background
When did World War I start?
Who was President of the U.S. during this time?
What did he want?
When did we enter war and why?
Which alliances did we join?
Who were the authors of this period?

3. Prosperity and Depression
When did “The Great War” end?
When did prohibition start and what is prohibition?
What is bootlegging? (You should know this in order to understand Gatsby).
What is a speakeasy?

4. Prohibition Prohibited the sale of liquor
Made the sale of liquor illegal
1919

5. Bootlegging
A term in reference to carrying, manufacturing, selling or transporting alcoholic liquor on one’s person or for others illegally
Synonym - smuggling
Jay Gatsby is a bootlegger

6. Speakeasy
Place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold during prohibition U.S.

7. What was life like during ?

8. 1920’s Culture The flapper Short hair for women Hats for men and women
Dancing
Silent movies
Jazz/Charleston
“The Jazz Age was wicked and monstrous and silly. Unfortunately, I had a good time.” Heywood Broun

9. Activity 1: Think-Pair-Share
Why do you think we call them the “roaring twenties”? Take one minute to write your answer.
When I tell you to, share what you wrote with the person next to you.

10. THE FLAPPER by Dorothy Parker
The Playful flapper here we see, The fairest of the fair. She's not what Grandma used to be, -- You might say, au contraire. Her girlish ways may make a stir, Her manners cause a scene, But there is no more harm in her Than in a submarine.
She nightly knocks for many a goal The usual dancing men. Her speed is great, but her control Is something else again. All spotlights focus on her pranks. All tongues her prowess herald. For which she well may render thanks To God and Scott Fitzgerald.
Her golden rule is plain enough - Just get them young and treat them rough.

11. The Roaring 1920s—Swingin’!!!!!
Business Booms
First shopping mall built
First fast food chain, A&W Root Beer
Appliances all the rage—radios, washing machines, telephones, cars
Companies spend $1.5 billion on advertising in 1927
Ford built his automobile empire
People began to buy things on credit

12. Victorian Woman Jazz Age Woman
Contrast the women in these two drawings. Take two minutes to write down as many differences as you can. What’s the verdict?
Victorian Woman
Jazz Age Woman

13. Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Born
He was named after his distant cousin Francis Scott Key, the man who wrote “The Start Spangled Banner.”

14. His Life Attended Princeton University.
Joined the Army to fight in World War I.
Was sent to Alabama and met his wife, Zelda.
She wouldn’t marry him until he had the money to support her in the way she was accustomed.
After being dismissed from the Army he went to N.Y. to try to sell his first book.
He locked himself in his room revising the book until it was published. The book= This Side of Paradise

15. His Fortune
This Side of Paradise sol 3,000 copies in three days, catapulting Fitzgerald to instant fame.
Magazines began buying short stories as fast as he could write them.
Zelda agreed to marry him.
He was the “golden boy of American Literature.”

16. His Work
His short stories revolved around a new breed of an American woman - the young, free-thinking, independent “flapper” of the Roaring Twenties.

17. His Work (cont.) - couple moves to New York and spends
The Beautiful and the Damned
The Jazz Age - collection of short stories
The Vegetable - a play
By this time the couple drank and fought and later moved to Paris and partied hard
The Great Gatsby was written but it did not sell well.
Tender is the Night was written and was about a psychiatrist married to a wealthy mental patient (represents his wife).
The Last Tycoon

18. His Victory Became the “voice” of the twenties.
He is now ranked as one of the major prose writers of the 20th century. His fiction became the symbol of the frenetic energy of the era. No other writer captured so well the spirit of the Jazz Age, the moral decay of the generation.

19. The Great Gatsby
A lyrical picture of American values, a uniquely romantic materialism in which people try to convince themselves that desire can define reality, that gesture can define action, and that sentiment can define emotion.

20. Anticipation guide
You may NOT qualify your answers simply means to not explain, just yet.
Use the back to keep track of the characters.

21. Who’s who in The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway - the novel’s narrator
Tom Buchanan - Daisy’s husband, a rich and brutal man
Daisy Buchanan - Nick’s cousin
Jordan Baker - a beautiful woman who cheats at golf and in life
Jay Gatsby - a racketeer, bootlegger and a romantic idealist. He is in love with Daisy

22. Who’s who (cont.)
George Wilson - The owner of a garage in the “valley of the ashes”
Myrtle Wilson - George Wilson’s wife; Tom Buchanan’s coarse mistress.
Catherine - Myrtle’s sister
Mr. and Mrs. McKee - a photographer and his wife (secondary)
“Owl-Eyes” - a middle-aged man

23. Who’s who (cont.)
Meyer Wolfsheim - Gatsby’s business partner, a gambler and racketeer
Ewing Klipspringer - The pianist at Gatsby’s house
Dan Cody - gave “Gatsby” his education

24. Let’s Read