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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald. “The Greaty Gatsby”. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born September 24, 1896 named after ancestor, Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.” Intelligent, but did poorly in school; sent to boarding school, later enrolled at Princeton in 1913.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Greaty Gatsby”

  2. F. Scott Fitzgerald • Born September 24, 1896 • named after ancestor, Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner.” • Intelligent, but did poorly in school; sent to boarding school, later enrolled at Princeton in 1913. • Never graduating, Fitzgerald enlisted in the army in 1917.

  3. Became a second lieutenant, stationed at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama. • Met and fell in love with a 17 year-old girl, Zelda. • Zelda finally agreed to marry him, but made him wait until he could prove to be a success. • Published This Side of Paradise in 1920, and did so. • Published The Great Gatsby, his most famous novel, in 1925.

  4. The Roaring Twenties dissolved into the Great Depression • Zelda suffered a nervous breakdown • Fitzgerald turned to alcoholism • Published Tender is the Night in 1934 • Sold short stories to TheSaturday Evening Post • Left for Hollywood in 1937 to write screenplays • While working on a novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, in 1940, Fitzgerald (age 44) suffered a heart attack and died.

  5. The Great Gatsby: Setting • Long Island’s North Shore and New York City from spring to autumn in 1922. • (fictional) West Egg and East Egg, Long Island. Next to Nick’s rental house is Gatsby’s mansion.

  6. The Great Gatsby: The Roaring Twenties • A period of economic prosperity, also known as “The Jazz Age.”

  7. The “flapper” The Charleston Art Deco – linear symmetry

  8. Bootlegging Prohibition

  9. Rise of the stock market • Decayed social and moral values • increase in the national wealth and newfound materialism • A person from any social background could, potentially, make a fortune • families with old wealth scorned the newly rich

  10. Themes • The Decline of the American Dream • originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness • easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream • The Hollowness of the Upper Class • Newly rich greatly different from aristocracy (old money)

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