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content: The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald

content: Author BackgroundFrancis Scott Fitzgerald born September 24, 1896Member of the Princeton Class of 1917Joined the Army-stationed in Montgomery Alabama where he met Zelda SayreRefused to marry him until he could publish This Side of ParadisePublished 3/26/1920, week later the couple marriedPart of the literary party scene with Ernest Hemmingway playwright Gertrude Stein

content: Author BackgroundFrancis Scott Fitzgerald born September 24, 1896Member of the Princeton Class of 1917Joined the Army-stationed in Montgomery Alabama where he met Zelda SayreRefused to marry him until he could publish This Side of ParadisePublished 3/26/1920, week later the couple marriedPart of the literary party scene with Ernest Hemmingway playwright Gertrude Stein

content: Author Background Cont.Known as an alcoholic , led to slow writing speedCritics called him an “irresponsible writer.”Main themes focused on aspirations and the American Dream and domesticityGreat Gatsby put him on the literary mapWrote it in France- Zelda had affair1930-1931-Zelda began dancing led to her mental breakdownsSave Me The Last Waltz- Tender is the Night is a response to thisDied 12-21-1940-believing himself a failureZelda died 1948 in an asylum fireRevival of his works in 1950-1960's

content: Fitzgerald—inspired by the parties he had attended while visiting Long Island's north shore—began planning the novel in 1923, desiring to produce, in his words, "something new—something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned."

content: ContextPublished in 1925Prohibition became law in 192019th Amendment gave women the right to voteModeled Gatsby, and the Buchanan's after his wife's lover and the relationship between himself and his life.Triggered ideals of disillusionment after soldiers returned from the war as they dealt with PTSD and brought the party scene of Europe to Americacoined the term Jazz Age, which denoted an era of ragtime, jazz, stylish automobiles, and “uninhibited young women with bobbed hair and short skirts”" Fitzgerald wrote, "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire."

content: ContextPublished in 1925Prohibition became law in 192019th Amendment gave women the right to voteModeled Gatsby, and the Buchanan's after his wife's lover and the relationship between himself and his life.Triggered ideals of disillusionment after soldiers returned from the war as they dealt with PTSD and brought the party scene of Europe to Americacoined the term Jazz Age, which denoted an era of ragtime, jazz, stylish automobiles, and “uninhibited young women with bobbed hair and short skirts”" Fitzgerald wrote, "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire."

content: SettingfEast and West Egg, Long Island New YorkWest Egg-poorer side (Nick Caraway)East Egg-Beverly Hills of Long Island (Buchannan's, Gatsby)Symbolizes the grandeur and dichotomy of the American DreamNovel also travels to Gatsby's time in the war and arrival in New York

content: Plot Summary: Eggs CrackedNick Carraway, a recent Yale graduate returns home to West Egg to start a careerNeighbors to the mysterious Jay GatsbyInvited to the home of his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom Buchanan on East Egg.Meets Jordan Baker, the golf pro who Daisy wants him to dateNick notices that Daisy is unhappy in her marriage, desperate to escape domesticityTom gets a call from a mysterious woman, his mistress Myrtle Wilson

content: Tom takes Nick to Queens to meet MyrtleThe relationship is permitted by Tom and Myrtle's friends because both were “vastly unhappy in their marriages.”Myrtle mocks Daisy and Tom beats her to Nick's horrorWeeks later, Nick and Jordan attend a Gatsby party, shocked that few of the guests actually know him and gossip that he is an Anti-Semite, and a murderer.Nick meets Gatsby who asks him to lunch the next day

content: Plot Synopsis: The “Great” GatsbyAt lunch with Gatsby and Jordan the next day, Nick learns that Gatsby attended Oxford University and that his family is “all dead now.”Meets Meyor Wolfsham, who with Gatsby's help, fixed the world series in 1919.On the car ride back to West Egg, Nick notices that Gatsby's hand is shaking and that his “whole statement had fallen to pieces.”Gatsby reveals that Daisy Buchannan was the only woman he had ever loved and that they had a relationship five years prior to when he joined the war.

content: Plot Synopsis: “Red Light, Green Light”Gatsby built his house to be closer to Daisy and to watch her from afarThe Green light at the end of the dock symbolizes Gatsby's hopes that they will one day still be able to be togetherDaisy and Gatsby reunite and their relationship begins once againDaisy and Tom attend one of Gatsby's parties and Daisy becomes overwhelmed with emotionThe party moves to the Buchannan's house but Daisy declares that they should move to a hotel to escape the heat.Much to Tom's dismay, Daisy rides in Gatsby's yellow car with him, while Tom is forced to drive Nick and Jordan.On the way into town, Tom meets with Tom Wilson who has locked Myrtle in the house because of her continued affair.

content: Plot Summary: Summer Heat and Heated TempersThe party moves to the Plaza Hotel where Tom confronts Daisy about her relationship with Gatsby.Gatsby brings Daisy to an ultimatum: she must choose to be with Tom or himself.Daisy is unable to make a decision and runs away with Gatsby.Furious, on the way home, Daisy seizes control of the car from Gatsby and hits Myrtle Wilson who instantly dies.Back at the Buchanan's home, Tom and Daisy flee Long Island unable to face responsibility for their actions

content: Plot Summary: The Great Gatsby's Last IllusionDetermined to avenge his wife's death, George Wilson sneaks into Gatsby's backyard and murders both himself and Gatsby.Nick (now separated from Jordan) notifies Gatsby's father of his son's death.Gatsby refused to meet with father because he wanted to get rid of his past.Few present at the funeral (Owl Eyes)Nick reflects upon his experiences with Gatsby and realizes albeit loathingly, the truth of his character.

content: Character Analysis: Nick Carraway29-30 Yale GradCousins with Daisy and TomNarrator of the storyComes of age (loss of innocence)Moral compass of the novelConflicted both about Daisy and Gatsby and Tom and MyrtleUnable to decide whether or not Gatsby is to be trustedGatsby creates him as a father figure to replace his own.Relationship with Jordan Baker harmed by her supremely feminist ways.

content: Character Analysis: Jay GatsbyOriginally known as James GatzFrom North DakotaTaken in by Dan Cody, a wealthy tycoon from whom Gatsby inherited his wealthFell in love with Daisy Buchannan shortly before leaving to fight in WWIMoved to West Egg in order to see her across the bayRelentlessly lives in the past and ultimately gives up his life for Daisy hoping that she will love him again.Don Draper esque