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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald


1
The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald
2
The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Born Sept 24, 1896
  • Named after ancestor (Francis Scott Key)
  • 1913 - enrolled in Princeton University (didnt
    graduate)
  • 1917 enlisted in army
  • Fell in love with Zelda Sayre
  • She agreed to marry him once he was a success
  • 1920 his book This Side of Paradise is published

3
The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (cont.)
  • The book is successful Zelda agrees to marry him
  • Daughter Frances
  • 1925 The Great Gatsby
  • Parties and alcoholism
  • Zeldas breakdown and death
  • Died 1940 (heart attack)

4
Great Gatsby Information
  • Time period 1920s
  • Setting East Egg, West Egg, NYC
  • List of Main Characters
  • Nick Carraway (narrator)
  • Tom Buchanan
  • Daisy Fay Buchanan
  • Jordan Baker
  • Jay Gatsby
  • George Wilson
  • Myrtle Wilson

5
Prohibition
  • The Eighteenth Amendment (1919) to the
    Constitution forbade the manufacture, sale,
    import, or export of intoxicating liquors.
  • The Twenty-first Amendment (1933) repealed the
    Eighteenth Amendment.

ALCOHOL
6
The Roaring Twenties
  • Prohibition
  • Speakeasies
  • Bootlegging
  • Organized Crime
  • Jazz Age
  • Dancing
  • Flappers
  • Womens rights

7
1920 Some perspective
  • More people in the city than in the country
  • of radios in homes 2,000
  • First radio broadcast aired
  • Harlem Renaissance begins
  • 19th Amendment women granted the right to vote
    in the US

8
1921
  • Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as President of
    the United States of America
  • Knee length skirts become fashionable
  • The first Miss America pageant

9
1922
  • Flapper dress makes its debut
  • Speakeasies in NYC 5,000
  • First radio commercial broadcast

10
1923
  • Hollywood sign goes up
  • Americans see on avg. 1 movie/week
  • President Harding dies
  • Vice President Coolidge becomes President
  • 15 million cars registered in the US
  • Charleston dance becomes popular

11
1924
  • of radios in US homes
  • 2.5 million
  • 1st Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade
  • Coolidge is reelected

12
1925
  • Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
  • Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
  • The first woman Governor of a U.S. state
    (Wyoming) is elected.
  • The Scopes Trial
  • Evolution in schools debate
  • First trial broadcast over the radio
  • Frisbee invented

13
1926
  • 40 hour work week
  • 1 in 6 Americans owns a car
  • 1st supermarket
  • US woman swims the English Channel
  • Deaths due to bad booze in NYC 750

14
1927
  • Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic
    Ocean
  • First talking movie (The Jazz Singer)
  • Telephone service is opened between New York City
    and London (ATT)
  • Speakeasies in NYC 30,000
  • Deaths due to bad booze in 1 hospital in NYC on
    New Years Eve 41

15
1927 (continued)
  • Al Scarface Capone earnings
  • 100 million alcohol sales
  • 30 million protection business
  • 25 million gambling
  • 10 million vice and sundry rackets

16
1928
  • Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic
  • Women compete for the first time in Olympic field
    events
  • Penicillin discovered
  • 1st televisions are sold - 75
  • Mickey Mouse in first cartoon

17
1929
  • Empire State Building construction begins
  • Speakeasies in NYC 32,000 100,000
  • Speakeasies in Chicago 10,000
  • Car radio invented
  • Stock Market crash
  • October 29
  • Black Tuesday
  • 9 billion lost on that one day

18
1920s compared to today
19
1920s compared to today
20
1920s compared to today
21
1920s compared to today
22
Bibliography
  • http//www.princeton.edu/pr/pictures/a-f/fitzgeral
    d-f-scott/fitzgerald-med.jpg
  • http//images.google.com/imgres?imgurlhttp//www.
    shortstory.by.ru/fitzgerald
  • http//library.thinkquest.org/C005846/introduction
    /introduction.htm
  • http//scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/timeline-
    1926.html
  • http//www.defenselink.mil/photos/Feb2003/030114-O
    -0000D-001.html
  • http//disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/in
    credibles/
  • www.theconnection.org/.../ 04/20040402_b_main.asp
  • http//www.apple.com/ipod/
  • http//www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/models/gallery
    .jsp?modelescalade
  • www.allsports.com/ mlb/yankees/frommer42.htm
  • http//www.signonsandiego.com/sports/baseball/2005
    0323-9999-1s23bonds.html

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Assignment Journal(Part One)
  • The 1920s were kind of a big deal ?
  • 1. What would the US be without one or two of the
    following 1920s events/inventions? Make some
    broad comments or specific ones.
  • Radio
  • Car radio
  • Television
  • Miss America Pageant
  • Prohibition
  • 40 hour work week
  • Skyscrapers
  • Penicillin

24
Journal American Dream(Part Two)
  • Respond to the following three questions
    thoughtfully and with detail.
  • What is the stereotypical American Dream and how
    does one get it?
  • What contrast is there between the American dream
    and the American reality?
  • What is your American Dream? Is it realistic?
    What will you need to be happy?
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