The Great Gatsby & Chicago The Great Gatsby and Chicago are two very different stories, so it seems--but upon closer examination, we may find that they're not so different after all. We will be discussing: Setting Theme Mood Characters Author’s Purpose The Great Gatsby & Chicago Decadence and Decay

The roaring 20’s A Quick Overview: Roaring 20's Video

The Birth of Mass Culture The “New Woman” Flappers- young women with “bobbed” hair, shorter skirts, smoked, and drank. The Right to Vote- 19th Amendment The Birth of Mass Culture Radios became very popular: By the end of the 1920s there were more than 12 million radios in U.S. households Movies – more than ¾ of the population went to the movies. Automobile – cars were affordable and credit was available. (Model T cost just $260 in 1924)

The Jazz Age Jazz bands played at dance halls like the Savoy in New York City and the Aragon in Chicago Radio stations and phonograph records carried their tunes to listeners across the nation. Older people objected to jazz music’s “vulgarity” and “depravity” but the younger generation loved the freedom they felt on the dance floor.

Cultural Civil War The Great Migration- African Americans moved from the Southern countryside to Northern cities. Increasing visibility of black culture—jazz and blues music, and literary movement known as the Harlem Renaissance - discomfited some white Americans. The Red Scare- 1919 and 1920 Anti-Communism. Led to the passage of an extremely restrictive immigration laws

Prohibition The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture and sale of “intoxicating liquors.” At 12 A.M. on January 16, 1920, the federal Volstead Act closed every tavern, bar and saloon in the United States. Drove the liquor trade underground–now, people simply went to nominally illegal speakeasies instead of ordinary bars–where it was controlled by bootleggers, racketeers and other organized- crime figures such as Chicago gangster Al Capone.

Chicago is a musical based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she reported on. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal.“ In the early 1920s, Chicago's press and public became riveted by the subject of homicides committed by women. Several high-profile cases arose, which generally involved women killing their lovers or husbands. These cases were tried against a backdrop of changing views of women in the Jazz Age, and a long string of acquittals by Cook County juries of women murderesses (jurors at the time were all men, and convicted murderers generally faced death by hanging). A lore arose that, in Chicago, feminine or attractive women could not be convicted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EpaMmF9WVU

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rARN6agiW7o

Assignment: Chicago/gatsby analysis Purpose: To compare character and theme development in the novel The Great Gatsby and the movie Chicago, both of which depict the prevailing attitudes and social norms, traditional and emerging, of the 1920s. Part I: Choose 4 characters from Gatsby and compare them to the characters from Chicago they most closely match. You will have 4 pairs of characters (8 total characters) For each character pair, provide a well-developed paragraph that analyzes the similarities/differences citing specific evidence. From Chicago, consider how the director develops the character visually on the screen or through dialogue/attitude. From Gatsby, provide examples of literary techniques that are used to achieve the same character development. (4 paragraphs/40 points)

Part 2:Choose 3 common themes that are explored in both The Great Gatsby and Chicago. The works may address the themes similarly or differently. In a well-developed paragraph, analyze how the author/director develops each theme for the reader/audience through plot, character development, setting, etc. Provide specific evidence. (3 paragraphs/40 points) Part 3:Using the template provided, create a bio- poem for one of the characters chosen in Part I. The finished poem should be artfully illustrated with 4-5 pictures that would be considered symbolic of the chosen character. (20 points) (TEST GRADE, Due Friday, December 19th) ***Turn in on Netschool