The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

• by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Objectives(What you will learn) OR (Why you are
reading this)

• Setting - 1920s
• Character Analysis
• Interpreting Symbols
• Point of View
• Vocabulary
• Style

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Objectives Cont. - Themes

• End of the American Dream, class and social
  standing
• Repeating the Past
• Immorality
• God is dead/Loss of Faith
• Roles of Women
• Social Class

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Objectives Cont. - Symbols

• Green Light
• Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg
• East Egg/West Egg
• Mantle Clock

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Born in St. Paul, MN
• 1st novel - This Side of Paradise
• Wrote stories epitomizing the mood and manners of
  the 1920s
• Published 46 short stories
• Completed Gatsby in five months

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Cont.

• Married Zelda who was diagnosed with
  Schizophrenia
• Final novel - The Last Tycoon
• Popular during the 1920s
• Now recognized as one the great American Authors
  along with Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner

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Characters

• Nick Carraway - Narrator, Stock Broker
• Jay Gatsby - Very rich through illegal means,
  wants Daisy
• Daisy Buchanan - Toms wife and Nicks 2nd
  cousin, dated Gatsby before WWI
• Tom Buchanan - antagonist, marries Daisy, has
  affair with Myrtle

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Characters Cont.

• Jordan Baker - female pro golfer, dates Nick
• Myrtle Wilson - Georges wife, has an affair with
  Tom
• George Wilson - poor man that runs a gas station