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By: Cassie Graves, Neil Mason, Carly Snyder, and Catherine Waters

By: Cassie Graves, Neil Mason, Carly Snyder, and Catherine Waters. The Fitzgeralds. Francis Scott Zelda Sayre Frances Scott “Scottie”. Francis Scott Fitzgerald . Born 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota Upper middle class childhood Attended Princeton, then dropped out to join the Army in 1917

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By: Cassie Graves, Neil Mason, Carly Snyder, and Catherine Waters

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  1. By: Cassie Graves, Neil Mason, Carly Snyder, and Catherine Waters

  2. The Fitzgeralds • Francis Scott • Zelda Sayre • Frances Scott “Scottie”

  3. Francis Scott Fitzgerald • Born 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota • Upper middle class childhood • Attended Princeton, then dropped out to join the Army in 1917 • Met Zelda while stationed in Alabama • First success was This Side of Paradise (1920) • Wrote The Great Gatsby in 1925 • Died at the age of 44

  4. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald • Born July 24, 1900 in Montgomery Alabama • Prominent southern family $$$ • Classic southern belle • Excelled in dance and social events • Painter, dabbled in writing • Seen as the “ideal Flapper” • She and Scott had a daughter, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, born 1921 • Had an affair with a french naval aviator

  5. The Fitzgeralds (as a couple) • Zelda broke off the engagement and only married F. Scott after his novel This Side of Paradise was successful • "I have so many things dependent on its success--including of course a girl.” • Enjoyed fame and fortune, traveled all over the world • Lived a glamorous, yet self-destructive, life • F. Scott was an alcoholic & Zelda was diagnosed as a schizophrenic • Strained relationship

  6. Main Characters Nick Carraway: The novel’s narrator, Nick, is a young man who goes to New York City to learn the bond business. He claims he is honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment. Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets. The Great Gatsby is told entirely through Nick’s eyes; his thoughts and perceptions shape and color the story. Jay Gatsby: Gatsby is an extremely wealthy young man living in a mansion in West Egg. He is famous for the lavish parties he throws on Saturday nights, but no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune.

  7. Main Characters (con’d) Daisy Buchanan: Daisy is a beautiful socialite, and she lives with Tom Buchanan (her husband) across from Gatsby in the fashionable East Egg district of Long Island. Daisy has a very unique and musical voice, which draws characters close to her. Tom Buchanan: Daisy’s immensely wealthy husband. Tom was a football player at Yale and he is powerfully built and extremely intimidating. Tom is from a socially prominent, “old money” family. Jordan Baker: Jordan is Daisy’s friend, and she is staying with the Buchanans. Jordan is a competitive golfer, and she represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s

  8. The Great Gatsby: Movie

  9. Major Themes • Wealth (old and new), class structure • Women's roles in society • The plausibility of the American Dream • Morals (and lack thereof) in the 1920's • Happiness

  10. Background • The Great Gatsby explores society and wealth in the 1920's through the narration of Nick Carraway who has just moved to New York from the Midwest • This point of view allows the reader to understand a complex society from an outsider’s perspective • Begins in the spring of 1922 • In many ways, The Great Gatsby parallels Fitzgerald's life

  11. Map East Egg: • Old Money • Tom & Daisy live here Valley of Ashes: • Industrial area, a dump • Myrtle & Wilson live here West Egg: • New Money • Gatsby & Nick live here

  12. The “Roaring 20s” • Harding’s “Return to Normalcy” • Blossoming of jazz ---> The “Jazz Age” • Flapper as the modern woman • Economic flourishing of United States after World War I • Immigration Act of 1924 (caused by a fear of communism, immigrants, minorities (resurgence of KKK)) • Prohibition ---> rise of “speakeasies” • Era saw the large-scale use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, and electricity, unprecedented industrial growth, accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and significant changes in lifestyle and culture.

  13. The Lost Generation • Term popularized by Ernest Hemingway • Includes John Steinbeck and T.S. Eliot • Close contemporaries of early European Dadaism, the Art Deco movement, and Surrealism • Disillusioned in regards to society, skeptical about materialistic aspects

  14. Women’s Movement • Women’s Suffrage Movement • Passage of the 19th Amendment in 1919

  15. Prohibition • Created by the ratification of the 18th Amendment in 1919, and lasted until the 21st Amendment (1933) • Rise in organized crime & bootlegging • Al Capone

  16. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Grave

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