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1
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Modernism

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Designates the broad literary and cultural movement that spanned all of the arts and even spilled into politics and history

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2
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Where did Modernism begin?

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Europe

Spread to US after WW1

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What technique is used in modernism?

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Stream of consciousness

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4
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What was Modernism concerned with?

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  • accelerating pace of society toward destruction and meaninglessness
  • accurately portray the world as HUMANS saw it
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5
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Summarize the US in WW1

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  • attempted to remain neutral

- joined after Germans sunk our tanks

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6
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What happened to Puerto Ricans in WW1?

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Given citizenship just to make them enter the war

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Importance of WW1 to the Great Gatsby

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Jay Gatsby was in WW1

Modernism spread through WW1

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Modernism in the Great Gatsby

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  • lack of morals
  • narration
  • loss of American dream
  • social criticism
  • modern technology
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9
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What was the most important technological innovation?

And why?

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The automobile

Allowed people to move to socially different areas, could move further out of city and commute

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10
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Automobiles in GG

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Myrtle’s death

George’s occupation

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11
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Economics in the 1920s

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The rich had all the money

most Americans had no savings

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12
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Al Capone

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lead role in most organized crime at the time

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13
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Where did the mafia develop?

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Italy

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14
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Bonny and Clyde

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outlaws that captured the media’s attention

poor rising up

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15
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Importance of organized crime in GG

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Gatsby is a bootlegger

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16
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Who was the first person to use the term “jazz age”?

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Fitzgerald

17
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Where was the jazz age born?

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New Orleans from African Americans

18
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Importance of jazz in GG

A

Gatsby’s parties

19
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Jazz club/speakeasy

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Only place that you could drink since alcohol was illegal

20
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Flappers

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trendsetters in fashion

feminists

groupies for jazz bands

21
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What rebellious things did flappers do?

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smoking, alcohol in roooms, short skirts, short hair

new women

22
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What was going on in sports in the 1920s?

A

Football and golf gain popularity

radio made national pastime baseball

player’s salaries increased

23
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Importance of sports in GG

A

Jordan baker is a pro golfer and has low integrity

she cheated to win her first match

24
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Where does GG take place?

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Long Island, New York

25
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What is Long Island known for

A

Beaches

close proximity to alcohol

coney island

26
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What is Long Island split into?

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West and East Egg

27
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Nova Scotia

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Rum runners that obtained alcohol

close to Long Island

28
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What class was Fitzgerald born into?

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Upper middle class

29
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What greatly affected Fitzgerald?

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Alcoholism interfered with his work and social life

30
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What type of work did Fitzgerald do? And how did he feel about it?

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He wrote scripts for movies and short stories

He found this work degrading

31
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Fitzgerald’s marriage

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Met Zelda in the army

had a poor life together

they partied hard

32
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How did Fitzgerald die?

A

Heart attack

33
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What happened to Zelda?

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She was committed to a mental hospital

34
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Black white relations in the 1920s

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Jim Crowe laws

slaves move to Northern cities

start of Civil Rights movement

still lots of racism

35
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Lost generation

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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

36
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How did the lost generation come about?

A

After WW1 life seemed bleak

People had no hopes about their future or humanity’s

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