F.

SCOTT
FITZGERALD
THE GREAT
GATSBY
By:
Ayeln Bochatay Gala Rosell
Franco Magnabosco

FRANCIS SCOTT
FITZGERALD
(1896 1940)
American novelist
and short-story writer

CONTEXT
Roaring 20s:
Economic
prosperity: diffusion of
automobiles,
telephones,
etc.,
industrial growth, consumer demand.
Break of traditions.
Jazz
Age: great demand of jazz
musicians.
18 th amendment: law of prohibition,
bottlegging and gangsterism.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Son of

Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan.

In 1913, he enrolled at Princeton, where

he started composing lyrics. Before
graduating, he volunteered for the army.

He lived in Long Island with his wife

Zelda. There both of them entertained
with
expensive
liquors
and
entertainment.

BIOGRAPHY

In the 1930s, his wife was

hospitalize for schizophrenia.
And some years later, she died
in a fire in a Maryland hospital.

Fitzgerald died from a heart

attack induced by a long
addiction to alcohol in 1940.

THE LOST
GENERATION

During the 1920s a group of writers

known as "The Lost Generation"
gained popularity.
This term is used to describe the
people of the 1920s who rejected
American post World War I values.
T he
three best known writers

among The Lost Generation are F.

Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
and John Dos Passos.

THE LOST
GENERATION
It defines a sense of moral loss or

aimlessness apparent in literary

figures during the 1920s.
These literary figures also criticized
American
culture
in
creative
fictional stories which had the
themes of self-exile, indulgence
(care-free living) and spiritual
alienation.

WRTING STYLE

His novels include elaborate

descriptions of characters and
places,
similes
that
create
imagery, and allusions.
Rhythm is manipulated through
repetition,
compound-complex
sentences, punctuation to achieve
different effects.

WRITING STYLE

Lost Generation Writer a pronounced

realism and complex symbolism. The
language was very dark and simplified.

Introduced the first-person fictional

narrator the use of Nick as a narrator
enables Fitzgerald to maintain a balance
for the first time in his career between
the two sides of his character. The
idealist and the realist. The narration is
the tension between them .

HIS LITERARY CARREER

Fitzgerald's
own
tempestuous
relationship with his wife Zelda
would be reflected in his many
short stories and novels.
Most of his works are a classic
study of the American Dream in
all its highs, lows, excesses and
joys.
His work was marked by a

AMERICAN
DREAM

Anyone in the US can succeed through hard

work, and have the potential to lead a happy
and successful life regardless of social class
and circumstances of birth.
The idea is rooted in The United States
Declaration of Independence.
The American Dream dates to the 1600s
when it was a dream of fame, success and
wealth.
The industrialization of the 19 t h and 20 t h
centuries began to erode the Dream. It was
replaced with the philosophy of get rich
quickly.

HIS MAJOR WORKS

Novels
This

Side of Paradise(1920);
The Beautiful and Damned (1922);
The Great Gatsby(1925);
Tender Is the Night(1934);
The Last Tycoon,unfi nished (1941).

Short Stories
Flappers

and Philosophers (1920);

Tales of the Jazz Age(1922);
All the Sad Young Men(1926), includes The
Rich Boy and Absolution;
Taps at Reveille(1935).

MEETING THE
FITZGERALD
S

THE GREAT
GATSBY

The main events of

the novel take place in
the summer of 1922.
The story is narrated by
Nicholas
"Nick"
Carraway,
aYalegraduate
andWorld War Iveteran
from the Midwest who
takes a job in New York
as abond salesman. He

THE GREAT
GATSBY
Throughout the

novel, places and

settings
epitomize
the
various aspects
of the 1920s
American society
and the Jazz Age.

SETTING

The
story
is
set
in
the
prosperousLong Islandin 1922.
Visiting Long Island's north
shore and attending parties at
mansions is said to have
inspired the writer to create
the
setting
in
TheGreat
Gatsby.
Throughout the novel, places
and settings epitomize the

THE GREAT GATSBY

AS A NOVEL OF MANNER

The novel of manners gives a sharp

portrayal of the actual life as it really is
and also of the social behaviour and
attitudes that are closely related with it.
It is possible to read it as a novel of
manners
for
it
presents
life
and
atmosphere of the Roaring 20s in
America, the Jazz Age, marked by
prohibition, the organised crime, thenew
womanas well as the wealthy upper-class
and their carelessness in most aff airs.

Show me a hero and I'll write

you a tragedy
F. Scott Fitzgerald

THE END