1. The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940 Born in Minnesota Attended Princeton Married Zelda Sayre Wrote The Great Gatsby 1925 Expatriate

3. Setting Long Island, New York Summer of 1922 Jay Gatsby’s Mansion on West Egg Daisy Buchanan’s Mansion on East Egg

5. Gatsby’s Mansion

6. Characters Nick Carraway-Narrator Jay Gatsby Daisy Buchanan Tom Buchanan George Wilson Myrtle Wilson Jordan Baker

7. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave... me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had." Nick’s Father Gave Him Some Advice

8. Gatsby and Daisy

9. The Jazz Age The Roaring Twenties Prohibition the 18 th Amendment Organized Crime Women’s Right to Vote the 19 th Amendment

12. Organized Crime

14. Themes American Dream vs. American Nightmare Romance Materialism “Old Money” vs. “New Money” Racism/Anti-Immigration Backlash Violence

15. As I sat there, brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out Daisy's light at the end of his dock. He had come such a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close he could hardly fail to grasp it. But what he did not know was that it was already behind him, somewhere in the vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. Symbolism The Green Light

16. A Crack in the World: Breakdown of Beliefs and Traditions The “Great War” WWI 1914-1918 “ This war was a turning point in American life, marking a loss of innocence and a strong disillusionment with tradition.”

17. Emma Lazarus

18. The New Colossus She is Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame, "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest- tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" by Emma Lazarus, 1883

19. The American Dream Pursuit of a Promise America the “new Eden” Optimism in the future Triumph of the Individual

21. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times Population Explosion 110 Million People Stock Market Crash The Great Depression

24. Motherless Child

26. Hope for a Better Life

28. Anti-Immigration Backlash and Violence

30. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

31. Unguarded Gates Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild, motley throng — Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, Fearless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav, Flying the Old World ’ s poverty and scorn; These bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws. In the street and alley what strange tongues are loud, Acents of menace alien to our air, Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast Fold Sorrow ’ s children, soothe the hurts of hate, Lift the down-trodden, but with hands of steel Stay those who to thy sacred portals come To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn And trampled in the dust. For so of old The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome, And where the temples of the Caesars stood The lean wolf unmolested made her lair. --Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

34. March on Washington

35. Fervent Religious Revival Aimee Semple McPherson

36. Existentialism Individual alone in a hostile world No moral absolutes The Lost Generation Journey is the reward

37. The American Dream Revised Who are we? Where are we going? What values should guide us on this search for human identity?