Francis Scott Fitzgerald The Grat gatsby

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FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD

THE GREAT GATSBY

abriela Nterov XAJ9m 2012/2013


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Who was F.S.Fitzgerald? * 24th Sep 1896 1920 publication of This Side of Paradise 1925 The Great Gatsby, events fromFitzgeralds early life appear in it wild, reckless lifestyle of parties,battled alcoholism 1937 left for Hollywood to write screenplays 1940 died of a heart attack


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The Great Gatsby - period post war period (WW I) one of the greatest literary documents of this period the American economy soared, bringing unprecedented levels ofprosperity to the nation prohibition - millionaires made out of bootleggers an underground culture of revelry private parties, secret clubs thrived America in a state of shock


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The Great Gatsby Genre: a novel with autobiographical features, Jazz Age novel,

novel of manners

Setting:Long Island and New York City, summer 1922 Narrator: Nick Carraway; both first and third person, presenting

only what he himself observes

Tone: -Nicks attitudes toward Gatsby are contradictory- seems todisapprove of Gatsbys excesses and violations

of manners and ethics

- also romanticizes and admires Gatsby; describing theevents of the novel in a nostalgic and elegiac tone


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Nick Carraway the novels narrator,a young man from Minnesota, works NewYork City to learn the bond business honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets lives in West Egg, home to the newly rich befriends his next-door neighbor, the mysterious Jay Gatsby Daisy Buchanans cousin, facilitates the rewakening of theromance between her and Gatsby


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Jay Gatsby the title character and protagonist of the novel, born as James Gatz ona farm in North Dakota fabulously wealthy young man living in a mansion in West Egg,famous for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night no one knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he madehis fortune fell in love with Daisy while training to be an officer made his fortune through criminal activity viewed by Nick as a deeply flawed man, dishonest and vulgar, but hisextraordinary optimism and power to transform his dreams into realitymake him great nonetheless


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Daisy Buchanan Nicks cousin, and the woman Gatsby loves before the war she was courted by a number of officers,including Gatsby she fell in love with Gatsby and promised to wait for him harbors a deep need to be loved so she decided not to wait forGatsby lives with Tom, her husband across from Gatsby in thefashionable East Egg district of Long Island cynical, behaves superficially to mask her pain at her husbandsconstant adultery


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Tom Buchanan arrogant, hypocritical bully his social attitudes are laced with racism and sexism he never even considers trying to live up to the moral standardhe demands from those around him has extramarital affair with Myrtle when he begins to suspect Daisy and Gatsby of having an affair,he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation


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Jordan Baker - Daisys friend, a woman with whomNick becomes romantically involved, boyish, and self-

centered, dishonest

Myrtle Wilson - Toms lover, he treats her as a mereobject of his desire

George Wilson - Myrtles husband, George isconsumed with grief when Myrtle is killed


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Plot Overview- N. Carraway comes to NYC for business, rents a house in W. Egg, hisneighbour is a mysterious Jay Gatsby (lives in huge house and hasparties every Saturday night)- Nick has a dinner with his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom

(classmates)- Nick introduced to Jordan Baker (she tells him about Buchanan smarriage, and Toms lover, Myrtle. Nick begins a romantic relationshipwith her- Nick travels with Tom and Myrtle to NYC, they are in the apartment

having a party, Myrtle starts to jeer Tom about Daisy and he breaks hernose- In the summer Nick accepts Gatsby s invitation to one of his parties


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Plot Overview- Nick finds out Gatsby has known Daisy and is deeply in love withher and lives an extravagant life just to impress Daisy- Gatsby asks Nick to invite her to his house without telling her

that hell also be there,they meet, fall in love again and begin anaffair- Tom suspects Daisy that she has a relationship with Gatsby- While they are having lunch at Buchanan s house and he

realizes that Gatsby is in love with Daisy- He meets Gatsby and confronts him- He says his wife that Gatsby is a criminal and his fortune comes

from bootlegging alcohol and other illegal activities


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Plot Overview- Tom sends her back home with Gastby- Nick, Jordan and Tom drive through the valley of ashes, they see thatGatsby s car has killed Myrtle- Nick learns that Daisy was driving the car and Gatsby takes the blameand responsibility- Tom tells Myrtle s husband that Gatsby was the driver (he thinks thatthe driver must have been her lover and shoots Gatsby in his pool,

then he shoots himself- Nick organizes a small funeral for Gatsby, ends his relationship withJordan and moves back to Midwest to escape the disgust he feels forthe people in Gatsby s life


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- Nick reflects Gatsby s dream of Daisy was corruptedby money and dishonesty, the American dream ofhappiness has broken up into the simple chase ofwealth

- Though Gatsby s power to transform his dreams intoreality is what makes him GREAT , Nick reflects thatthe era of dreaming is over

Plot Overview


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Themes The Decline of the American Dream in the1920s The Hollowness of the Upper Class


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Motifs Geography

Weather


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Symbols The Green Light

The Valley of Ashes The Eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg


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Similarities between Fitzgeralds life andcharacters from The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota,educated at New Haven University, who moves to New Yorkafter the war

Jay Gatsby, a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth andluxury and who falls in love with a beautiful young woman whilestationed at a military camp

Gatsby acummulates a great deal of wealth at a relatively youngage, and devotes himself to acquiring possessions and throwingparties that he believes will enable him to win Daisys love


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Similarities between Fitzgeralds life andcharacters from The Great Gatsby Like Nick in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald found this new lifestyleseductive and exciting like Gatsby, he had always idolized the very rich like Nick, Fitzgerald saw through the glitter of the Jazz Age to themoral emptiness and hypocrisy beneath, and part of him longedfor this absent moral center Like Gatsby, Fitzgerald was driven by his love for a woman whosymbolized everything he wanted, even as she led him towardeverything he despised


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Film adaptations1974 - the mostfamous screenversion, with Mia Farrowand Robert Redford

2000 made forTV movie, starringToby Stephensand Mira Sorvino

to be released in 2013,with Leonardo DiCaprio


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Resources Fitzgerald,F.S.1994.The Great Gatsby.London:

Penguin books Ltd,1994.ISBN 978-0-14-062323-9

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/

http://www.litcharts.com/search/node/the+great+gatsby

http://www.biography.com/people/f-scott-fitzgerald-

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