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The Great Gatsby Flashcards

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1
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Describe West Egg and name the people?

A 
New money
Bootlegging parties 
They never cross over to the East.
Gatsby 
Dan Cody
Nick
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Describe the Valley of Ashes and the people there?

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Dull desolate
Myrtle
George B Wilson

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Describe East Egg and the people there?

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Old money 
Inherited
Snobbish 
Daisy
Tom Buchanan
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Describe 1920’s America?

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The Roaring 20's
Jazz Age 
Bootlegging
Films
Radio
Consumerist lifestyle 
Corruption 
Nihilism
Rejection of the old Purtian America
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What, who government?

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Corrupt
Capitalist
Republicans
Laissez Faire

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What was the 1920’s industry?

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Industry boomed
50% _ Americans owned cars
Hoovers 
Fridges 
Lights
Toasters
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What were the 1920 generation called?

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Lost generation

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8
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What is the 18th Amendment?

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Prohibition illegal alcohol

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What characters were involved in bootlegging?

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Meyer Wolfsheim and Jay Gatz Gatsby

Hist _ bootleggers made a pipeline from Canada to Chicago

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What was America like?

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Division ➕ intolerance
Immigration, isolation, tariffs cut off foreign markets _ farmers.
Minorities Jim Crow laws
Minorities migrated North America = more tolerant

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Women in 1920’s?

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Challenge norms 
Flapper girls
Short hair 
Makeup 
Tight clothes 
Drinking
Smoking
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Props 1920’s

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Rural.V urban 
Cosmopolitan V old.
Teetotal V bootleggers
Tradition v modernism.
Purpose V inaction 
Materialism V minimalism
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What happened to American soldiers when they came back from WW?

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Exposure to creativity = life in London and Paris artists and writers
Exposure to horrors of war

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What was the upbringing like for wealthy Americans?

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Raised _ Puritan minded parents
Ivy League universities
Inherited money

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What did the lost generation do?

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Rejection of conventional pathways
Rejected Puritans cancellations of fun
Rejected religion

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What were the two strong opposition reactions to state affairs?

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Older generations = pushed for new laws = =control social outbursts
New generation = rejected those laws
18 th

17
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A 2 word quote

The description Nick gives for West Egg?

A

Less fashionable C1

18
Q

How does Nick describe his house? West egg

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Small eyesore
A weather-beaten cardboard bungalow
C1

19
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How is East egg described?

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The white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water C1

Had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assured to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside - East Egg condensating to West Egg and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gaitey C3

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