1. The Great Gatsby F.Scott Fitzgerald

2. Context The Roaring ‘20s: -A time of substantial economic prosperity in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. - Major cities: New York, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin.

3. Post WWI “The world must be made safe for democracy.” - Woodrow Wilson. People were disillusioned and nervous originally. Racism, intolerance, violence, Ku Klux Klan, immigrants, political intolerance. 1920s became a time of prosperity and a new “Golden Age”

4. Inventions Insulin Band Aides Traffic Lights Liquid-Fueled Rockets Penicillin Home Refrigeration

5. Jazz 1920s called the “Jazz Age” Popularized in the 1920s. Older generations thought it immoral and threatening to cultural values. Dances: “The Charleston”, “Lindy Hop”, “Foxtrot”

6. Prohibition Came after the Temperance Movement - Worried about the effects that alcohol has on home life. 18th Amendment (Ratified in 1919) - In effect for 13 years. Illegal to make, sell, distribute, or consume alcohol.

7. Al Capone

8. Bootlegging Illegally sell and distribute alcohol. NASCAR Speakeasy

9. Women’s Roles 1920 - 19th Amendment - Woman’s right to vote. 9 Million women were employed and making their own money. Bobbing their hair Could drink and smoke in public. Flappers - Liberated young women. Living alone, self-confident, more equal relationships w/ men.

10. Flappers

11. Criticism The decade of “decline and degradation”. US was caught up in a “surge of materialism”. Forgot the meaning and significance in life. Fascinated with “success”

12. The American Dream An attitude of hope and faith that looks forward to the fulfillment of human wishes and desires. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

13. Failure of American Dream Poverty Discrimination Exploitation Hypocrisy Corruption Suppression

14. F.Scott Fitzgerald Born: 1896 in St. Paul, MN Educated: Princeton University 1917: Joined the US Army Met his wife Zelda

15. Zelda Sayre Cared about “boys and swimming” Wouldn’t marry Fitzgerald until he got published. 1920: This Side of Paradise published. Struggled with living in Fitzgerald’s shadow. Schizophrenic - Hospitalized in 1930. Died in 1948 in Highland Mental Hospital in N.C. Zelda = Daisy

16. Zelda

17. F.Scott “The Lost Generation” Expatriate in Paris - live outside of your native country. The Great Gatsby was not an immediate success. Financial troubles. Alcoholic since college. Died in 1940. F.Scott = Gatsby and Nick.

18. F. Scott Fitzgerald

19. East Egg “Old Money” - Wealthy Families. “Land’s End” - Buchanan’s - Long Island Home

20. West Egg “Nouveau Riche” - Newly Rich Oheka Castle on Long Island

21. East and West Egg

22. Valley of Ashes A dumping ground for the rich. Poverty.