Note Packet Flashcards
Modernism
Designates the broad literary and cultural movement that spanned all of the arts and even spilled into politics and history
Where did Modernism begin?
Europe
Spread to US after WW1
What technique is used in modernism?
Stream of consciousness
What was Modernism concerned with?
- accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness
- accurately portray the world as HUMANS saw it
Summarize the US in WW1
- attempted to remain neutral
- joined after Germans sunk our tanks
What happened to Puerto Ricans in WW1?
Given citizenship just to make them enter the war
Importance of WW1 to the Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby was in WW1
Modernism spread through WW1
Modernism in the Great Gatsby
- lack of morals
- narration
- loss of American dream
- social criticism
- modern technology
What was the most important technological innovation?
And why?
The automobile
Allowed people to move to socially different areas, could move further out of city and commute
Automobiles in GG
Myrtle’s death
George’s occupation
Economics in the 1920s
The rich had all the money
most Americans had no savings
Al Capone
lead role in most organized crime at the time
Where did the mafia develop?
Italy
Bonny and Clyde
outlaws that captured the media’s attention
poor rising up
Importance of organized crime in GG
Gatsby is a bootlegger
Who was the first person to use the term “jazz age”?
Fitzgerald
Where was the jazz age born?
New Orleans from African Americans
Importance of jazz in GG
Gatsby’s parties
Jazz club/speakeasy
Only place that you could drink since alcohol was illegal
Flappers
trendsetters in fashion
feminists
groupies for jazz bands
What rebellious things did flappers do?
smoking, alcohol in roooms, short skirts, short hair
new women
What was going on in sports in the 1920s?
Football and golf gain popularity
radio made national pastime baseball
player’s salaries increased
Importance of sports in GG
Jordan baker is a pro golfer and has low integrity
she cheated to win her first match
Where does GG take place?
Long Island, New York
What is Long Island known for
Beaches
close proximity to alcohol
coney island
What is Long Island split into?
West and East Egg
Nova Scotia
Rum runners that obtained alcohol
close to Long Island
What class was Fitzgerald born into?
Upper middle class
What greatly affected Fitzgerald?
Alcoholism interfered with his work and social life
What type of work did Fitzgerald do? And how did he feel about it?
He wrote scripts for movies and short stories
He found this work degrading
Fitzgerald’s marriage
Met Zelda in the army
had a poor life together
they partied hard
How did Fitzgerald die?
Heart attack
What happened to Zelda?
She was committed to a mental hospital
Black white relations in the 1920s
Jim Crowe laws
slaves move to Northern cities
start of Civil Rights movement
still lots of racism
Lost generation
refers to a group of writers who were men and women of this period
translated their disillusionment into a social protest and produced some of the greatest works of 10th century literature
How did the lost generation come about?
After WW1 life seemed bleak
People had no hopes about their future or humanity’s
