'The Great Gatsby' context
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- 'The Great Gatsby' context
- Fitzgerald's early years
- Unpopular with other boys at school; seen as aloof.
- Reading dominated by adventure stories
- Father tried to make it 'big' in furniture business but never achieved success he hoped for.
- Mother's inheritence meant the family lived comfortably as part of 'middle class' but Fitzgerald always felt he was like a poor man crashing a rich man's party.
- Princeton years
- Beginnings of the alcoholism that would later kill him.
- Academic probation!
- Eventually quit and joined the military.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
- Proposed to Zelda after discharge from the army in 1919.
- Zelda had doubts due to Fitzgerald's lack of stable income.
- Fitzgerald took a job in New York as an advertising writer - wanted to fix 'no money' problem.
- Zelda had doubts due to Fitzgerald's lack of stable income.
- 'This Side of Paradise' written for Zelda
- Married a week after it was published.
- Proposed to Zelda after discharge from the army in 1919.
- The Roaring 20's
- Younger generation distrusted older generations after the First World War.
- Even gang bosses achieved stardom, e.g. Al Capone
- 1918: prohibition - BUT gangsters provided it.
- Those 'forgotten' in the Jazz Age
- African Americans
- Manual labour for very poor wages.
- Only real outlet was jazz and dancing
- Existence of the KKK
- Share croppers
- Rented out land from landlords, etc.
- Could not afford = evicted from land.
- African Americans
- Fitzgerald's early years
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