Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Great Gatsby- Context
- The Legacy of WW1
- Gatsby fought in war
- Won war medals
- Montenegro
- Nick thought he was lying
- USA suffered very few losses
- Only joined in 1917
- Led to glorification of war
- Disillusionment
- The Jazz Age
- New money
- Flappers
- Consumerism
- Prohibition of alcohol
- The Criminal Underworld
- Al Capone
- Most famous gangster of 1920s
- Bootlegger
- Meyer Wolfsheim
- Gambler
- Fixed 1919 World Series
- Baseball
- Real event
- Gatsby
- Served illegal alcohol at parties
- Used drug-stores to sell alcohol
- Whisky could be prescribed by doctors for medicinal purposes
- Jordan cheating at golf
- Women and Flappers
- Jordan Baker
- Plays golf
- Defies femininity of Victorian era
- Masculine sport
- Characteristics
- Short skirts
- Bobbed hair
- Makeup
- Smoking
- Right to vote
- 1920
- Zelda Sayre
- Fitzgerald's wife
- Prime example of a flapper
- The American Dream
- Hard work= success (rich)
- Wall Street Crash
- After publication of Gatsby
- 1929
- American Dream ruined
- Gatsby
- Hopes to impress Daisy with wealth
- Ultimately unsuccessful
- Rags to riches
- Came from poor family
- Became rich via crime
- George Wilson
- Plans to leave VoA with Myrtle to find new life
- Mass Production and Advertising
- Dr T.J. Eckleburg
- Optometrist
- Eyes of God
- Omniscient
- Religion replaced with consumerism
- 'Money can't buy happiness'
- Gatsby opposes this
- Needs wealth to please Daisy
- Daisy= source of happiness
- Parties
- House
- The Entertainment Industry
- Gilda Gray's understudy