Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 1896 - 1940
The Great Gatsby, 1925 - Background
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Facts
- The book was written in the middle of the Jazz Age, four years before the stock market crash of 1929.
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The 1920s
- The roaring 20's with a lot of information about events that occured in the 20's
- 8 Ways ‘The Great Gatsby’ Captured the Roaring Twenties. Sarah Pruitt, History; November 16, 2018
- Flappers in the Roaring Twenties
- Fashion of the early Twenties
- Dance Moves from the 1920s
- 1920s dances featuring the Charleston, the Peabody, Turkey Trot and more
- Alcohol
- Meyer Wolfshiem
- "The man who fixed the World Series back in 1919" (chapter iv), was modeled after Arnold Rothstein, one of the Fitzgerald's neighbors in Great Neck on Long Island. Rothstein was the alleged mastermind of the Black Sox baseball scandal in the 1919 World Series (read especially the information toward the bottom of the page and an article of the St. Petersburg Times of December 22, 1999).
- The American Dream
- The American Dream in The Great Gatsby: "In any case, the novel, just by being set in the 1920s, is unlikely to present an optimistic view of the American Dream." PrepScholar
- The Great Gatsby and the American dream: "Fitzgerald had much to say about the failure of this dream, and the fraudulences that sustain it." The Guardian; May 25,2012
- American Dream and Its Drawbacks: The American Dream arose as an idea of freedom and equality and came true in the 1950s and 1960s partially. With the advent of plutocrats, American society started to degrade.