The Great Gatsby CONTEXT Flashcards
When did women gain the right to vote?
1920
What decade inhabited the Flapper Movement?
1920s
When was the stock market crash?
1929
What decade inhabited the Great Depression?
1930s
Outline the term, Opulence?
Great wealth and Luxuriousness
What led to the twenties being named ‘the roaring twenties?’
The celebration of Jazz Music, flappers and parties.
When was the prohibition of alcohol?
1919
What was social darwinism?
The distortion of Darwin’s ‘Theory of Evolution,’ adapted to discriminate against social minorities being ‘less evolved’ than the privileged White proportion of society.
When did the USA join the first world war?
1917
Who did Fitzgerald recognise as the first ‘flapper?’
His wife, Zelda.
The success of which Fitzgerald novel brought him and Zelda into contact with ‘high society?’
This Side of Paradise, 1920.
Why were Scott & Zelda eventually separated?
Zelda was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and placed in a clinic.
When did Scott Fitzgerald die?
1940.
Which of Fitzgerald’s novels is supposed to reflect the pressures put onto Scott and Zelda’s relationship once she was placed into a mental health clinic?
Tender is the Night.
When did Zelda and Scott meet?
1918, when he had volunteered for the Army.
