The Great Gatsby

2. The Great Gatsby
Content
• The Book
• The Movie
• Videos
• Quotations
• Quiz

3. The Great Gatsby (1925)
novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
themes:
• AMERICAN DREAM
• ROARING TWENTIES
• SOCIAL CLIMA
• SYMBOLISM

4. The Great Gatsby
The book
Main idea of the story
• Decline of the American Dream
• Rejection of a self-made man without noble
blood
• The young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby
• Love of his Life - Daisy Buchanan

5. The Great Gatsby
The book
• narrator: Nick Carraway, Daisy´s cousin
• settings: Long Island and New York City,
summer 1922

6. The Great Gatsby
The Movie (2013)

7. Plot
• Nick Carraway a bond – seller describing
Gatsby’s life:
• As a life of a mysterious business magnate
• And the only truly good person to whom
nobody had ever returned his hospitality

10. Interesting facts
• "Scott would have been proud“
• The inspiration of Gatsby’s mansion

11. Interesting facts
• Sealed with a Kiss
• Ain't No Party Like a Baz Party
• Old Sports

12. Symbolism
• Green light

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

14. Colour Symbolism
• WHITE
• GREEN
• RED

15. Soundtrack

16. Soundtrack
• Director Bazz Luhrmann of Romeo and Juliet,
Moulin Rouge - musical character of the movie
• Shawn JAY Z Carter as an executive producer
• Jazz from twenties covered in the new sound

17. The Roaring Twenties
• Enjoy your life
• Charleston + jazz
• Modernist trends in art and culture
• Status of women changed (independence)
• Prohibition

18. Women´s Fashion

19. Men´s fashion

20. QUIZ
• Who was the director of The Great Gatsby?
• Where it takes place?
• Who was the executive producer of the
soundtrack?
• Do you remember any singing interpret from the
film?

21. Thank YOU For YOUR Attention
“So we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past.”