1. THE GREAT GATSBY F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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).

6. 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).

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

12. SYMBOLISM  The Green Light  The Valley of the Ashes  The Eyes of T.J. Eckleburg  East and West Egg  Water

13. VOCABULARY  Chapter 1: Acute, Complacency, Epigram, Levity  Chapter 2 : Ambiguously, Obscure  Chapter 3: Impetuously, Disconcerting  Chapter 4: Innuendo, Sporadic

14. 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