1. Intro to Chopin, Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby
Background Information

2. Kate Chopin American author of short stories and novels (1850-1904)
Most famous for The Awakening: WAY ahead of it’s time and highly criticized (made her turn to short stories)
Writer of feminist literature

3. Why are we talking about her?
Many themes in Gatsby regarding women
Daisy and Myrtle
Author of A Pair of Silk Stockings, which we will be reading

4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
American author of novels and short stories (The Great Gatsby)
Came from a family with little money
Married a woman named Zelda Sayre
Hated by Hemingway
Inspiration for novels/ stories
Later diagnosed as a schizophrenic
Late became a raging alcoholic

5. Great Fitzgerald quotes
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy”
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what’s in your mind”
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

7. The Great Gatsby Written in 1925 Fitzgerald’s masterpiece
Took passages from his other short stories to write it
It was a “flop” when first published
Daisy= Zelda

8. The Great Gatsby (film)
Adapted a total of FOUR times
We will be watching snippets from the 2013 version
Baz Luhrmann
Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire