The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsbyby F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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

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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)

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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

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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• The Twenty-first Amendment (1933) repealed the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
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The Roaring Twenties

• Prohibition
• Speakeasies
• Bootlegging
• Organized Crime
• Jazz Age
• Dancing
• Flappers
• Womens rights

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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

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1921

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

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1922

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

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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

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1924

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

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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

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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

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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

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1927 (continued)

• Al Scarface Capone earnings
• 100 million alcohol sales
• 30 million protection business
• 25 million gambling
• 10 million vice and sundry rackets

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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

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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

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1920s compared to today
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1920s compared to today
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1920s compared to today
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1920s compared to today
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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

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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?