published : 1925 setting : long island and new york city - summer 1922
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Published : 1925 Setting : Long Island and New York City - Summer 1922. Post WWI. Economy prospered as America aimed to forget the troubles of war While most lived below the poverty level, the standard of living sharply increased for many. Post WWI. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Published: 1925Setting: Long Island and New York City - Summer 1922
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Post WWI
• Economy prospered as America aimed to forget the troubles of war
• While most lived below the poverty level, the standard of living sharply increased for many
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Post WWI
• Americans abandoned small towns in exchange for urban living
• The Great Migration – “The Southern Diaspora”
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The 1920s
• Roaring ‘20s• Flapper Era• The Aspirin Age• Age of Wonderful
Nonsense• The Jazz Age
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• Years 1918-1929: after the end of WWI, continuing through the 1920s until the start of the Great Depression
• Takes its name from the African American based jazz music which became popular across many segments of society
• Period of pleasure seeking and reckless jubilance
The Jazz Age
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• Prohibition
• 18th Amendment to Constitution prohibited manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
• Bootlegging and “mob” activity increased
The Jazz Age
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• WWI made Americans question traditional values and ideals
• Literature and art denied foundations of the past
• The philosophy of the Jazz Age was called "modernism"
The Jazz Age
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• Writers stripped away descriptions of characters and setting and avoided direct statements of themes and resolutions
• This fragmented style of writing enabled each reader to find his/her own meaning
The Jazz Age - Modernism
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Hemingway, in his novel The Sun Also Rises depicts a group of expatriate Americans, wandering aimlessly through Europe, sensing that they are powerless and that life is pointless in the aftermath of the “Great War”
The Lost Generation
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Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein - she credits the garage owner who serviced her car
The Lost Generation
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• life without purpose• restlessness• a mindless quest for pleasure • dissatisfaction and drifting • loss of direction in life
Fitzgerald’s novel can be seen to encapsulate this perception of
The Lost Generation
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Fitzgerald, like narrator Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, but was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it
The Lost Generation
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• Jazz Age - Roaring Twenties• Decline of the American Dream• Social Class Differences• Social Position of Women• The Automobile• Prohibition - Organized Crime
Themes
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• Success and Failure• Wealth - Old vs. New• Hope and ‘sense of purpose’• Illusion vs. Reality• Honesty vs. Lies• Time: role the past plays in dreams,
goals and achievements of the future
Themes
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• Connection between Events and Weather
• Connection between Geographical Location and Social Values
• Images of Time• Extravagant Parties• The Quest for Wealth
Motifs
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• The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg
• East Egg, West Egg• Money and wealth symbols (cufflinks,
shirts)• Dust and ash – “the valley of ashes”
(Eliot, The Wasteland, 1922)
Symbols
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• Green light on Daisy’s dock
• Gatsby’s parties• Significance of various colors
• The role of symbols themselves in the human conception of meaning
Symbols
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• Nick Carraway• Daisy Buchanan• Tom Buchanan• Jordan Baker• Myrtle Wilson• George Wilson• Meyer Wolfshiem• James Gatz – Jay Gatsby
Central Characters
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The mystery of Jay Gatsby becomes the central question of the novel and seems to shape the structure and tonal quality of the narrative
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