Context Gatsby Flashcards
Conspicuous
Consumption
Flapper girls
Women in the 1920s who dressed and acted freely, showing distancing for what was considered socially acceptable
Lost generation
The feeling of disorientation and loss felt by people after World War One
How did Fitzgerald die
He died at 44 from a lifelong alcohol addiction
Prohibition
Banning of alcohol in the US in the 1920s
How did Fitzgerald describe his childhood
‘I was a poor boy in a rich town’
Fitzgerald talking about his hate for rich people: ‘I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich…..
And that has coloured my entire life and work’
Quote from, ‘The Rich Boy’, ‘ they think they are better than us because we had to
Discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves’
Non olfactory money
Money which is clean and incorrupt, doesn’t smell or greed etc
Ennui
Listlessness and purposeless
Abe North in ‘tender is the night’
‘Drink made past happy things contemporary with the present’
