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The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald

Delve into the shimmering world of The Roaring Twenties with F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic novel, The Great Gatsby. Explore themes of opulence, societal artificiality, and moral bankruptcy in this literary classic. Unravel the complex structure, vivid imagery clusters, and unique first-person retrospective point of view that set this work apart. Discover the author's life as a writer of short stories and his critique of the American Dream. Join the Lost Generation in their disillusionment with post-WWI society as depicted by Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, and TS Eliot.

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The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  1. The Great Gatsby and F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. The Roaring Twenties • Age of decadence • Flappers • Time of prohibition (1920-1933) • Herbert Hoover • Jazz Age

  3. Images of Flappers

  4. Ford Model T

  5. More Images of Flappers

  6. The Great Gatsby • Novel invites the reader to enter the Jazz Age: fast cars, wild parties, and shady business dealings • Promotes discussion of values-glittering world of the Roaring Twenties as well as the artificiality and moral bankruptcy of the society Fitzgerald depicts • Gatsby’s world is characterized by excessive opulence

  7. Novel’s Structure • Excellent example of the first person retrospective point of view: Nick • Technical demands on author when uses a central intelligence effective in charting growth in the insight of a narrating character • Uses complex chronology, shifts back and forth between the present and the past • Provides a complete picture of the protagonist only at the end of the work • Typical of modern literature • Uses imagery clusters: can easily trace the patterns of images that Fitzgerald emphasizes

  8. F. Scott Fitzgerald • Short Stories: Major source of income before moving to Hollywood in 1937 • Lived off of income from stories-stories only financed his novels • Wrote with “The Fitzgerald Touch” – wit, sharp observations, dazzling descriptions or the felt emotion • Resented the work that went into his novels • Most of his readers only knew him as a writer of short stories • His concern was the deterioration of the American Dream

  9. The Lost Generation • Group of post WWI writers who became disillusioned with society • Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, TS Eliot • Ex-Patriots • Disliked Victorian notions of morality

  10. "That was always my experience-- a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton ... . However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

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