Jazz Age

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Jazz Age and The Great Gatsby By Janice Ribet
Jazz Age By Janice
Group of women / photo by Harry M. Rhoads.
Source Library of Congress American Memory
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Why did they call it the Jazz Age?
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Louie Armstrong was one of the most famous
musicians of the Jazz Age.
Portrait of Louis Armstrong, Aquarium New York
1946 Source Library of Congress American Memor
y
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Prohibition was a key component of the Jazz Age.
Prohibition Bust Source Library of Congress Am
erican Memory
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The 18th Amendment states After one year from
the ratification of this article the manufacture,
sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof into, or the
exportation thereof from the United States and al
l territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof
for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Stand in a line on the left if you are for
prohibition of alcohol, or stand in a line on
the right if you are against such a law. Then
get in a circle and prepare a five minute debate
to defend your belief.
Rogers, Duke. Save a little dram for me 1922 -
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Sound Track Source Library of Congress
American Memory
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In F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel The Great Gatsby
, the main character, Jay Gatz was a self-made
man from the sales of bootlegged whiskey. Write a
response to the question What happened to the
American Dream?
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In the grand ballroom of Fitzgeralds home,
guests would dance all night to big band tunes
like The Charleston. This was how the
characters in The Great Gatsby entertained
themselves. They would drink and dance the night
away.
Fitzgeralds House Built in America - Historic
American Buildings Survey/ Historic American
Engineering Record 1933 Present
Source Library of Congress American Memory
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The main characters of the novel Jay Gatz and
Daisy Buchannan were based on F.Scott Fitzgerald
and his wife in real life, Zelda.
F. Scott Fitzgerald Source Library of Congress
American Memory
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Daisy the main character from The Great Gatsby,
exemplified the traits of a flapper woman from
the roaring twenties Jazz Age.
Cover illustration, Life magazine, February 18,
1926, showing a well dressed old man dancing with
a flapper Source Library of Congress American
Memory
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Womens fashions and hairstyles were daring and
revealing during the Jazz Age. Women began to
express themselves. This was the early stages of
the feminist movement.
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Fitzgerald was known for his accurate description
of the Jazz Age. His works reflect the key
events of his own life.
Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source Library of Congress American Memory
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About F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota
• Named for ancestor Frances Scott Key
• Daydreamer and poor student
• Wrote plays and short stories in his teens
• Went to Princeton University in 1913
• Wrote for the Nassau Literary Magazine
• Entered World War One in 1917
• Wrote The Romantic Egotist in military camp
• While stationed in Camp Sheridan in Alabama he
  fell in love with Zelda Sayre from Montgomery,
  Alabama
  
• He courted her , but she turned down his marriage
  proposal because of his lack of money

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• Rewrote the novel and renamed it This Side of
  Paradise and it was published in 1920
  
• Zelda married him after the novel was published
• They lived the life of glitz and glamour in New
  York and Paris
  
• Later they moved to St. Paul where their
  daughter Scottie was born
  
• In 1925 Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby (a
  nearly flawless novel according to critics)
  
• In 1930 Zelda suffered a mental breakdown
• Tender is the Night was published in 1934
• In 1940 he died while writing The Last Tycoon

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The Great Gatsby
Pick a quote from The Great Gatsby and answer
the questions
on the handout.
Whenever you like criticizing any one,just
remember that all the people in this world
havent had the advantages that youve had.
Somebody told me they thought he killed a man o
nce. Oh my, Ga-od! Oh my Ga-od! Oh Ga-od
!
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The Jazz Age was the time of the big
band sound, prohibition, the flapper,
and the new genre of modernist writing.
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