F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Michel, Julian and Teun

Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby

His life

His life

• 24th of September

• The Lost Generation

• Princeton University

What age was F. Scott Fitzgerald when he first published a story?

1. 12
2. 13
3. 23
4. 15

His life

• Army
• Zelda
• Impossible relationship
• The Romantic Egoist
• The Side of Paradise (1919)
  

Novels

• This Side of Paradise (1919)

• The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

• The Great Gatsby (1925)

• Zelda - Save me the Waltz (1932)

• Tender is the Night (1934)

• The Love of the Last Tycoon (1941)

What was the name of his first novel before publication?

1. The Great Gatsby
2. This side of Paradise
3. The Romantic Egoist
4. Save me the Waltz

Decline & death

• Drank problems

• Financial problems

• Zelda - Schizophrenia

• Hollywood

• Heart Attack

Spirit of time

Roaring 20's

Consumer society

• Movement from farmland to cities
• Come up of electricity
• First car

What was the name of the alcohol ban?

1. The Prohibition
2. The Alcohol ban
3. The Booze ban
4. NIX 18

Consumer society

• Movement from farmland to cities
• Come up of electricity
• First car

What were 'speakeasies'?

1. Illegal pubs
2. Illegal alcohol sellers
3. Gangsters

Women

• The Flapper
• New Machine

Does this symbolize the women from the 20's?

1. Yes
2. No

Black Tuesday

• Stock Market Boom
• Black Tuesday

What was the coming crisis after the Market Crash called?

1. The Big Depression
2. The Great Crisis
3. The Great Crash
4. The Great Depression

Plot summary

•     Nick Carraway = narrator

•     Stock exchange

•     West Egg

•     Gatsby

• Tom and Daisy Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
  
• Tom's mistress Myrtle

• Parties at Gatsby's house
• Nick can't find Gatsby

• Gatsby and Nick -> NY
• Daisy and Gatsby
• Daisy married Tom
  

• Tea at Nick's house
• Tea at Buchanans house
• Tense Atmosphere
  

• New York
• Tom knows about Daisy and Gatsby
  
• Wilson move to West
• Wilson suspects Myrtle
  

• Tom accuses Gatsby
• Daisy loses faith in Gatsby
• Gatsby and Daisy run over a woman

Who did Gatsby and Daisy run over?

1. Jordan
2. Myrtle

• Tom accuses Gatsby
• Daisy loses faith in Gatsby
• Gatsby and Daisy run over a woman

What do you think will happen after Myrtle died?

1. Tom kills Daisy
2. Tom kills Gatsby
3. Wilson kills Tom
4. Wilson kills Gatsby

• Gatsby found dead
• Wilson committed suicide
• Only a friend and father at the funeral of Gatsby

Passages

Importance of Passage

Green light

Who is the man in the picture and who is he reaching for?

1. Nick Carraway reaching for Daisy
2. Nick Carraway reaching Gatsby
3. Gatsby reaching for Daisy

Importance of Passage

Green light

Where does the green light actually come from?

1. It is imagination
2. From the dock of the house on the other side of the water
3. From the house on the other side
4. It is the grass lighting up in the moonlight

Importance of Passage

Green light

What is the big difference between Gatsby and Tom and Daisy?

1. Gatsby is way richer than Tom and Daisy
2. Gatsby has more class than Tom and Daisy
3. T&D were born into the elite and therefore have more class

Importance of Passage

Green light

What does the green light symbolize in The Great Gatsby?

Importance of Passage

Green light

His influence

Reliving the roaring 20's

• Bright side
• Drama and scandals
• Great Gatsby
  

Why did American people like the Great Gatsby?

Lost generation

• Disoriented
• Paris
• WW I
  
• Roaring 20's
• Death of the American Dream
  

Where did the Lost Generation stay in the interwar period?

1. Paris
2. New York
3. Berlin
4. London

Literary Festival

• Rockville
• Inspiration
• Award
  

Questions?