Great Gatsby :Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald


F. Scott Fitzgerald :F. Scott Fitzgerald


Biography :Biography Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key (1896-1940) Catholic Newman School in Hackensack 1913, was accepted into Princeton University Dropped out after 3 months due to illness and poor grades Returned to Princeton in the autumn of 1916 A year later he dropped out and joined Officer Training, never actually graduating from Princeton He married Zelda Sayre


F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Great Gatsby"Documentary Clip :F. Scott Fitzgerald and "The Great Gatsby"Documentary Clip


Fitzgerald and Zelda :Fitzgerald and Zelda


The Genesis :The Genesis Critical Reception After Effects of the Novel


The Genesis of the Novel :The Genesis of the Novel Three years before the novel was published by Scribner's, Fitzgerald said that he planned to write "something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." His old friend, Edmund Wilson, read the book immediately. He told Fitzgerald it was the best work he had done, although he thought the characters were unpleasant. T.S. Eliot told him it was the best new novel he had read in years. Fitzgerald hoped to sell 20,000 copies from The Writer's Almanac, MPR.


The Genesis of the Novel :The Genesis of the Novel Behind the stories of Gatsby's longing for Daisy Buchanan, is what seems to be an influence form Fitzgerald’s own life. His love for wife, Zelda, who had a mental illness that gradually deteriorated and darkened the last years of their marriage.


Critical Reception :Critical Reception Ernest Hemingway said, after reading The Great Gatsby: "When I had finished the book, I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby, I was sure he could write an even better one."


Critical Reception :About The Great Gatsby, T.S. Eliot said: "[It] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years. ... In fact, it seems to me the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James ...." Critical Reception


After Effects of the Novel :After Effects of the Novel Film Released in 1974 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911141,00.html Still prevelant in today’s society http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/education/17gatsby.html?_r=3&oref=slogin http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/081021_great_gatsby.shtml Fashion in the 70’s http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,907016,00.html


New York :New York New York 1928


Slide 13:New York 21st Century


Comparison between 1920’s and 21st Century New York :Comparison between 1920’s and 21st Century New York


Long Island: Geography :Long Island: Geography Long Island is an island located in South Eastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan. It contains four counties, two of which (Queens and Kings) are boroughs (Queens and Brooklyn) of New York City, and two of which (Nassau and Suffolk) are suburbs of that city. Population: 7,559,372 making it the most populated island in any U.S. state or territory.


Long Island: History :Long Island: History Initially the island was inhabited by aboriginal people. The western portion of Long Island was later settled by the Dutch, while the eastern region was settled by English Puritans African Americans have been an integral part of Long Island history, most arriving first as slaves before the Revolution and working both at domestic and rural trades. New York and Long Island kept slavery until it was outlawed in 1799. Most freed people settled near where they had been living. 19th century Long Island was rural and agricultural, except in parts of Kings (Brooklyn) and Queens counties In the 1920s and 1930s, Long Island began the transformation from backwoods and farms to the paradigm of the American suburb. Railroads made possible commuting suburbs before construction of the Long Island Expressway and other major roadways.