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Stylish young party girls, who enjoyed to drink smoke, dance to jazz and practice their sexual freedom. Therefore they were seen as controversial and outrageous. First generation of independent American Woman, who pushed barriers in economic, political and sexual freedom for women.

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During the crazy nights, jazz upbeat tempo was accompanied with swing dance moves as well as charleston, flea hop and black bottom.

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18th ammendment that ends legal alcohol sales.

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He is the narrator, but he is not really the protagonist.
Reliable?  he is “inclined to reserve all judgments” (Gatsby, 7).
Critique: He only forbears that the people in the story -except Gatsby- don’t conform to the “fundamental decencies” (Gatsby, 7)
Relationship: when he thinks that he loves Jordan he is eager to “get [him]self out of that tangle back home” (Gatsby, 65) before being able to contract a relationship with her.
Honest and Caring: he is the only one who looks after a proper funeral for his friend Gatsby. Being Gatsby’s (only) friend is somehow Nick’s most important part in the book. Although he “disapprove[s] of him from beginning to end” (Gatsby, 160).

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Left university in 1917 to join the army for WW1

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Left university in 1917 to join the army for WW1

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The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

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The Decline of the American Dream in the 1920s

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In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays social classes as East Egg, which is the old aristocracy and West Egg as the new rich. Fitzgerald portrays the newly rich as being vulgar, gaudy, ostentatious, and lacking in social graces and taste. In contrast, the old aristocracy possesses grace, taste, subtlety, and elegance. One example of how the new rich, such as Nick, is how Fitzgerald describes is the mansion in which Nick lives, and the Rolls-Royce he has. On the other hand the delicate and white dresses that Daisy and Jordan use, portray the elegance Fitzgerald talks about.

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In the novel, social class is a general theme, that impacts on characters, but also in love. This is seen when Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy is bound up with class. Only after collecting a large fortune he feels able to make a move towards her.

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Love and marriage in the novel is more of a union between two people because of convenience,  than being in love.

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Characterization: Gatsby is never introduced globally and objectively.
“Gatsby represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.” But he “turned out all right at the end” (Gatsby, 8)
Relationship with Nick: Gatsby is grateful to meet someone who doesn’t make up any stories about him, but meets him with candidness and tolerance.
Love Life: He orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier.

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For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms.

People from coast to coast bought the same goods (thanks to nationwide advertising and the spread of chain stores), listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same slang!

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Five years before the start of the novel, Jay Gatsby (who had learned from Dan Cody how to act like one of the wealthy) was stationed in Louisville before going to fight in WWI. In Louisville, he met Daisy Fay, a beautiful young heiress (10 years his junior), who took him for someone of her social class. Gatsby maintained the lie, which allowed their relationship to progress.

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Fitzgerald bases social classes into wealthy ones. There are people that live in the west and east egg or others that live in New York City. However there is a place in the middle that he talks about and ts the valley of ashes. It is the representation of the lower classes and the poor side of life. It is a gray and sad environment. It represents the trash of industrial society. The valley is watched over by the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg in a billboard. The eyes are used to represent the eyes of god.

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wealthy - belonging to an upper class, old money family

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wealthy - belonging to an upper class, old money family

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“As for Tom, the fact that he “had some woman in New York” was really less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egoism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.”
(page 20)

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Gatsby fell in love with Daisy and the wealth she represents, and she with him (though apparently not to the same excessive extent), but he had to leave for the war and by the time he returned to the US in 1919, Daisy has married Tom Buchanan.

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“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.” (page 88)

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“He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual presence none of it was any longer real. Once he nearly toppled down a flight of stairs.” (page 91).

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“That’s my middle west – not the wheat or the praries or the lost swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth, and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of the hokky wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters…” (p.176)

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“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light on the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter – to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And one fine morning –

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

– p. 180

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gives allusion to what the lifestyle was in America during the 1920's: shows the birth of the American dream and the prominence in optimism and positivism.  

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gives allusion to what the lifestyle was in America during the 1920's: shows the birth of the American dream and the prominence in optimism and positivism.  