Great Gatsby Content Flashcards
What sparked the Modern era during the early Twentieth Century?
Industrial Revolution
What did Fitzgerald want to be?
rich & famous writer
When & Where was Fitzgerald born?
Sept 22, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Fitzgerald parents background?
Father failed buisnessman.
Mother from a wealthy family.
Fitzgerald was a … boy in a rich school
poor
In 1913 Fitzgerald was accepted at … in New Jersey
Princeton
What did Fitzgerald fail to make at Princeton?
the football team
What 2 things did Fitzgerald do at Princeton?
- Literary Magazine
- The Triangle Club
What problem did Fitzgerald have?
drinking
Fitzgerald dates Ginerva King and what did his father tell him about that?
poor boys don’t marry rich girls
What happened in 1917?
Fitzgerald flunked out of school and went to bootcamp
Who did Fitzgerald meet while waiting to be sent overseas?
Zelda Sayre
What did Zelda like about Fitzgerald?
his uniform
What date did the war end?
Nov 11, 1918
Why did Zelda break her engagement to Fitzgerald?
He couldn’t support the life she wanted
What book debuted and sold out that Fitzgerald write to make money and get Zelda back?
This Side of Paradise
What date did Fitzgerald and Zelda get married in Saint Patricks Cathedral NYC?
April 3, 1920
What term was coined by Fitzgerald in the 1920’s?
The Jazz Age
What’s Fitzgerald and Zelda’s daughters name?
Francis Scott (Scottie)
What magazines did Fitzgerald write short stories for?
Esquive & Saturday Evening Post
a book about a coupe who self destruct after too much drinking and partying
The Beautiful & the Damned
In the spring of 1924 what did Fitzgerald start writing?
Gatsby
Drinking buddy of Fitzgerald who was jealous of Fitzgerald’s writing style
Ernest Hemingway
When did the stock market crash that ended the Jazz Age?
Oct 29,1929
April of 1934 Fitzgerald released what book?
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald was drinking how many bottles of beer a day?
30
In the summer of 1937 who hired Fitzgerald as a screen writer?
Metro Golden
What two screens did Fitzgerald work on?
- Three Commrades
- Gone with the Wind
What was Fitzgeralds final novel in 1939?
The Last Tycoon
At the age of 44 Fitzgerald died by?
heart attack
How many people attended Fitzgeralds funeral?
very few
How did Zelda die?
Midnight fire at the mental hospital
Where are Zelda and Fitzgerald buried?
Rockfield, Maryland
Inspired Fitzgerald for the character of Daisy Buchanan?
Ginerva King
Wrote the star spangled banner?
Francis Scott Key
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald named after?
Francis Scott Key
represents poverty and hopelessness
The Valley of Ashes
represents hope of the American Dream
The Green Light at the end of Daisy’s Dock
represents real and not hollow
The books in Gatsby’s library
represents materialistic wealth
The shirts in Gatsby’s closet
represents freedom
automobiles
represents Gatsby getting Daisy and losing her
Overwound Mantle Clock
represents time stopping
Defunct Mantle Clock
represents fakeness, close to pure but not quite
The color yellow
What’s Nick’s secret pride?
appears to be honest and straightforward but isn’t
Why does Gatsby befriend Nick?
to go after Daisy
Irony about Tom and Myrtles Relationship?
Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle but he doesn’t treat her well
Dr TJ Eckelberg Symbol
Eyes of God looking down on the behavior
Reasons for Gatsby’s parties?
to get Daisy’s attention
Gatsby’s relationship with Wolfsheim
buisnessman partner and friend
Daisy’s advice to her daughter
“beautiful little fool” because a woman’s value is limited to her attractiveness
Truth about Gatsby attending Oxford
a special program for officers, he spent 5 months there
Irony of the amount of people attending Gatsby’s funeral
no one really attended Fitzgerald’s funeral, and everyone attended gastby’s parties but not his funeral
Why does Nick go back to the midwest
New York is too harsh, fast, and cruel
What date was the great gatbsy released?
Apr 10, 1925
