intro to chopin, fitzgerald, and the great gatsby background information
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KATE CHOPIN
American author of short
stories and novels (1850-1904)
Most famous for The
Awakening: WAY ahead of it’s
time and highly criticized
(made her turn to short stories)
Writer of feminist literature
WHY ARE WE TALKING AB OUT HER?
Many themes in Gatsby
regarding women
Daisy and Myrtle
Author of A Pair of Silk
Stockings, which we will
be reading
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
American author of novels and short
stories (The Great Gatsby)
Came from a family with little money
Married a woman named Zelda Sayre • Hated by Hemingway• Inspiration for novels/ stories• Later diagnosed as a schizophrenic
Late became a raging alcoholic
GREAT FITZGERALD QUOTES
“Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy”
“Genius is the ability to put into effect what’s in your mind”
“A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as
carefully as if she were plain.”
THE GREAT GATSBY
Written in 1925
Fitzgerald’s masterpiece
Took passages from his
other short stories to write it
It was a “flop” when first
published
Daisy= Zelda
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