2. It was a time of great
social change. From the
world of fashion to the
world to politics, forces
clashed to produce the
most explosive decade of
the century. In music, the
three sounds were jazz,
jazz, and jazz.Youth ruled
everything. From the
young styles of dress to
the latest celebrities. If it
was young, it was the
thing.
3. Ads in magazines
The USA was very
rich in those years.
Because of the war,
many countries owed
it a lot of money.
It had plenty of raw
materials and plenty of
factories.
4. The consumer society
The electrical industry
also prospered. It
made hundreds of
refrigerators,
vacuuum-cleaners,
stoves and radios.
The motto of the
people was “ Live
now, pay tomorrow”.
5. Cars
American factories
produced more goods
every year.
The busiest were those
making automobiles.
Between 1922 and
1927, the number of
cars rose from 11 to
over 20 million
6. The flapper lady
The skirt comes just an
inch below her knees,
overlapping by a faint
fraction her rolled and
twisted stockings. The
idea is that when she
walks in a bit of a
breeze, you shall now
and then observe the
knee .
7. The era of Jazz and Charleston
The Great Gatsby, set in
the 1920s, contains many
songs of the swing period
and ragtime era.
The Charleston was a
combination of swing,
jazz and ragtime. The
song was written by C.
Mack and J. Johnson and
was played at many
speakeasies and parties
like Gatsby‟s parties.
8. Gangsters
In 1919 the American
people voted in favour of
the new Amendment to
the Constitution. It was
the Prohibition time.
Speakeasies , which were
places where people could
buy alcohol and dance all
night, obtained their
drinks from criminals
called “bootleggers”. The
best known gangster was
Al Capone.
9. Fitzgerald‟s biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940) is best
known for his novels
and short stories
which chronicle the
excesses of America‟s
„Jazz Age‟ during the
1920s.
10. Fitzgerald‟s youth
Born into a well-to-do family in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1826,
Fitzgerald attended, but never graduated from Princeton
University. Here he mingled with the monied classes from the
Eastern and this obsessed him for the rest of his life.
In 1917 he was drafted into the army, but he never saw active
service abroad. Instead, he spent much of his time writing
And re-writing his first novel This Side of Paradise, which was
published in 1920 and it was an immediate success. In 1920,
He married the beautiful Zelda Sayre and together they
Embarked on a rich life of endless parties.
11. The Great Gatsby
Dividing his time between
America and Europe, the
Fitzgeralds were also famous
for their lifestyle.
He wrote The Beautiful and
the Damned in 1922
and The Great Gatsby in
1925, which was considered
his masterpiece.
12. Fitzgerald‟s last days.
They had a child, Scottie,
who was born in 1921.
Fitzgerald was an
alcoholic but he wrote
sober.
Zelda had psychiatric
treatment in the 1930s.
Fitzgerald wrote Tender is
the Night in 1930. His last
novel was The Last
Tycoon.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died in
1940.
13. The Great Gatsby‟s colour
symbology-1
Green light Hope and dream(Daisy)
Envy, jealousy (money)
Yellow Death (Myrle‟s death)
Corruptness (Leaves)
White Lack of responsibility,
shallowness, purity
Red Death
Pink Mixture of red (desire,
passion ,sin) and white
(purity)
14. The Great Gatsby‟s symbology-2
West Egg Newer Money
East Egg Fashionable. Old money
Dr. T.J. Eckleburg‟s eyes The eyes of God
Cars The symbol of
materialism of the 1920s
Valley of Ashes Moral decay behind
happiness and wealth
Flowers Refinement and love
15. The Great Gatsby and the
American Dream
The American Dream was
based on the assumption
that each person, no
matter what his origins,
could succeed in life on
the sole basis of his or her
own skill and effort.
Fitzgerald seems to be
critisizing the corruption
of the American Dream.
The characters pursue
power and pleasure not
noble goals.
