gatsby context Flashcards
Fitzgerald context
attended Princeton but dropped out to join the army towards the end of WWI
in the war he met Zelda and fell in love with her and proposed but she only married him when he was successful
fell into a recjless wild lifestyle of parties and hedonism along with alcohol addiction
Zelda had an affair and their relationship began getting violent
Tender as the night
the woman is a mental pateient the man a psychiatrist and as she gets better he detrioates - autobiographocal
context on the jazz age
glamourous decade and dissolved after the wall street crash in 1929
reaction to war and the growth and porsoperity that followed
the lost generation
Gertrude Stein - post WW1 generation that felt powerless and saw life as pointles leading to feelings of emptiness to be filled with alcohol and indulgence
context on the position of women
liberated young women known as flappers who subverted social and gender norms
women given the right to vote in 1920 - emancipation of women
american dream context
if you work hard enough you can be wealthy and successful
widespread materialsm and pursuit of wealth
media and mass market context
exponential growth in commodities during 29120s and opened the work up to advertising
adveritising created a desire for commodities and led many people to fall into debt
prohibition context
illegal to manufacture or sell alcohol and those who did were called bootleggers
Al Capone and Meye lansky were famous for this
race and prejudice
lots of immigrants living in New York leading to tension - immigration act 1924 limited this and created lots of racism
Nick’s antisemtisim to Wolfsheim
