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enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity. People
broke the law by drinking alcohol and lived in a corrupt
society. They danced to jazz music, and women wore
❖ These writers adopted unconventional style of writing and reacted against the tendencies of the old writers in the 1920s.
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❖ Of his own time,
Fitzgerald said: "There
❖ The nation's values had changed in this period. Many
Americans were concerned mainly with having a good
time and doing what you will. American society
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A spokesman of the “Jazz Age”
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The Great Gatsby
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Arrangement
1.Background
2.Fitzgerald
3.The Great Gatsby
Plotline Character Analysis Theme Symbols
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The Lost Generation
❖ Gertrude Stein----Hemingway
❖ The lost generation included the young English and American expatriates as well as men and women caught in the war and cut from the old value and yet unable to come to terms with the new era when civilizations had gone mad.
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Background
❖ -------------------------1920s-------------------------
❖ The First World War; The sense of life being dislocated and fragmented
❖ Economic boom
short skirts.
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Jazz Age
❖ The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term “Jazz Age” retrospectively to refer to the decade after World WarⅠ and before the stock market crash in 1929, during which Americans embarked upon what he called “the gaudiest（最华而不实 的） spree in history”.
❖ Social revelution
❖ The loss of faith
❖ -------------------------1930s-------------------------
❖ The Great Depressio.n
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Jazz Age& The Roaring 1920’s
❖ The Jazz Age describes the period of the 1920s and 1930s.The 1920s began with high hopes. World War One was over. The twenties ended with a huge drop in stock market prices that began the Great Depression. Fitzgerald was a representative of the years of fast living in between.
seemed no question about
what was going to happen.
America was going on the
greatest party in its
history and there Nhomakorabeawasgoing to be plenty to tell
about. " Yet if he
described only the party,
his writings would have
been forgotten when the
party ended.
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
American novelist and short-story
set and developing a reputation. He
was placed on academic probation (留
校察看) in his junior year, and in 1917
he left Princeton to join the army.
While stationed in Montgomery,
writer, is born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Born of middle-class parents,
Fitzgerald attended private schools,
entering Princeton in 1913. He became
part of the Triangle Club, a intellectual
Alabama, he met and fell in love with
Zelda Sayre(泽尔达·塞尔 ), the. daughter