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THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald
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THE ROARING 20’S & THE JAZZ AGE WWI is over! Great relief, but disillusionment. America was ready to let loose and have fun. Spectacular economic growth Rich and extravagant lifestyles were celebrated. Rise in prosperity, but great disparity between the rich and the poor.
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POLITICAL CHANGES 18 th Amendment to the Constitution, the Volstead Act, ushered in Prohibition Affects of 18 th Amendment: Violence/ Crime Bootleggers/ Rumrunners The Rise of Organized Crime 19 th Amendment to the Constitution, Woman’s Suffrage Women asserted their rights and independence Women asserted independence by drinking
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CULTURE Music & Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0 Fashion: Women- “The Bob” & Wave haircuts, short skirts, “Flapper girls” Men- Well-fitting suits, leather jackets, hair slicked back and parted Movies: Charlie Chaplin & Rudolph Valentino
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SPORTS Babe Ruth broke the home run record (1927). The NFL starts to become popular with the help of Red Grange (1925). Negro National Baseball League formed (1920). The rise of basketball with the creation of the American Basketball League (1925).
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SCIENCE & INNOVATION “Age of the Automobile” Increase in cars manufactured from 7 million in 1919 to 23 million (1929). Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics (1921). Penicillin was discovered by Alexander Fleming (1928). “The Baird Televisor” was introduced by John Baird (1926).
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SCANDALS 1919 World Series - “Black Sox” Eight Chicago White Sox players were throwing games & banned for life! Teapot Dome Scandal Department of Interior Secretary & Oil Companies Gangster & Police Corruption The most notorious gangster, Al Capone
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LITERATURE The Lost Generation & The Harlem Renaissance Many authors of the roaring 20’s criticized the decadent lifestyle. Often wrote of WWI and their experiences. Other significant authors of the 20’s: Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, W.E.B. Dubois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Born in St. Paul, Minnesota Enrolled in Princeton, but he left to join the army Stationed in the South and met Zelda Sayre Married Zelda after first novel, This Side of Paradise Turbulent marriage was marked by an extravagant lifestyle, alcoholism, and Zelda’s emotional breakdown
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WORKS Four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and The Damned, Tender is the Night. The Great Gatsby is most highly praised Style is “ lushly evocative” Because of subject matter and style, critics overlooked the themes of The Great Gatsby
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THEMES Position, class, wealth, social standing The Decline of the American Dream The Hollowness of the Upper Class Gatsby’s whole focus on life is to attain money and status to sustain a certain position in life. From their position in life, Daisy and Tom look down at people.
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SYMBOLISM The Green Light The Valley of the Ashes The Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg East and West Egg Water
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VOCABULARY Chapter 1: Acute, Complacency, Epigram, Levity Chapter 2 : Ambiguously, Obscure Chapter 3: Impetuously, Disconcerting Chapter 4: Innuendo, Sporadic
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VOCABULARY CONT.. Chapter 5: Gaudily, Scrutinized, Scanty Chapter 6: Ramifications, Laudable, Dilatory Chapter 7: Boisterously, Libertine, Stagnant Chapter 8: Strata, Benediction, Transitory Chapter 9: Addenda, Superfluous
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