References to American Society in The Great Gatsby by Kain Gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2 By: Kain, Josh, and Nels en-us 2018-04-20 13:35:16 UTC 2018-05-15 12:37:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png "She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” p. 17 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/253823938 This relates to the roles of women in the 1920s role. Women had diminished role and were born with disadvantages compared to men.


]]> 2018-04-20 13:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/253823938 “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?” p. 12 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/253826659 Tom doesn’t believe any other race other than whites should hold power in important matters.]]> 2018-04-20 13:48:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/253826659 “I almost made a mistake, too,” she declared vigorously. “I almost married a little kike who’d been after me for years. I knew he was below me. Everybody kept saying to me ‘Lucille, that man’s way below you!’ But if I hadn’t met Chester, he’d of got me sure.” p. 34 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/253828521 Mrs. McKee believes that she is racially superior to this Jewish man solely because of his religious values. She is very anti semitic, which shows attitudes towards Jewish people at the time during the 1920s.]]> 2018-04-20 13:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/253828521 "By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums." p. 40 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/259588117 The music at the time required multiple instruments and orchestras which is much different to how music has evolved today. During the 1920s, live music like this was much more popular. ]]> 2018-05-10 12:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/259588117 "In the morning, In the evening, Ain't we got fun..." "One thing's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get--children In the meantime, In between time--" Pg. 95 nels_soderquist https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/259591105 Rich people had little problems in life and lived happy lives of partying and having little responsibilities, while the poor had to struggle with raising a family and having to struggle with getting enough money to feed themselves and their family.]]> 2018-05-10 12:55:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/259591105 "A pale well-dressed negro stepped near." p. 139 joshua_herman https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/259591439 The casual usage of the word negro shows that this day in it was perfectly acceptable for someone to call a black person that, but if it was said today the person saying it would be under a lot of heat and pressure.]]> 2018-05-10 12:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/259591439 "About half way between West Egg and New York the motor rod hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land." p. 23 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260432345 Railroads at the time made up a huge industry in the US because robber barons, or the wealthy investors at the time, would form trusts and monopolies over railroads so that they could eliminate the competition and become wealthier. Examples of these types of people include John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. ]]> 2018-05-14 12:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260432345 "He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919" p. 73 joshua_herman https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260437843 This is a reference to the Black Sox Scandal, where 8 members of the Chicago White Sox apparently intentionally lost the 1919 World Series while playing against the Cincinnati Reds. This is an example of wealthy people being corrupt.]]> 2018-05-14 12:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260437843 "Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life. I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began. In the Argonne Forest I took two machine-gun detachments so far forward that there was half mile gap on either side of us where the infantry couldn't advance." p. 66 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260437977 World War 1 had just ended during this time period. Since it has been 4 years since it officially ended, it is easier for Gatsby to talk about to Nick. However, since he took part in the war, it's still easy to remember because it has been proven that soldiers that return from a long war seem to remember a large amount of what they experienced. ]]> 2018-05-14 12:46:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260437977 "Sit right down. Have a cigarette or a cigar." He walked around the room quickly, ringing bells. "I'll have something to drink for you in just a minute." p. 101 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260647546 During this time period, people would think that smoking was cool and it became a normal thing to do within society. People were less aware of its health effects. There weren't any places where smoking was restricted where as today, smoking is restricted in numerous places in our society.]]> 2018-05-14 21:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260647546 "Taking out my time-table, I drew a small circle around the three-fifty train. Then I leaned back in my chair and tried to think. It was just noon." p. 155 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260649793 During the 1920s, people would have to use "time tables" to determine what time the train they wanted to ride left the station and what trains were available on that particular day. Today, people can always look on line to see when a train leaves "Metro-North" for example, but it seems much more complicated and old-fashioned to use time tables. ]]> 2018-05-14 21:30:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260649793 "I saw it in the Chicago newspaper," he said. "It was all in the Chicago newspaper, I started right away." p. 167 kain_gonzalez https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260650756 Newspapers during this time period was the only real form of "Breaking News" in American society. Today, we receive constant alerts that tell us what is going on at all times. Mr. Gatz, who is talking in the passage above, waited a much longer amount of time to coincidentally hear about his son's death.]]> 2018-05-14 21:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260650756 "Most of those reports were a nightmare-grotesque, circumstantial, eager, and untrue." p 163 joshua_herman https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260805835 This shows how media, both back then and today likes to twist and stretch the truth to get a better story out of what happens. Everyone is obsessed with getting a story out even if it's untrue.]]> 2018-05-15 11:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260805835 "All night the saxophones wailed the hopeless comment of the Beale Street Blues while a hundred pairs of golden and silvers slippers shuffled the shining dust" page 151 joshua_herman https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260808024 This shows the new type of music listened to in the Roaring Twenties. In the Roaring Twenties young people wanted to party and they did constantly living extravagant and eventful lives.]]> 2018-05-15 12:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260808024 "On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight..." joshua_herman https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260811011 This shows the way people showed off their wealth. They are showing off their cars and going to biug partiesshowing off their status and high lifestyles. ]]> 2018-05-15 12:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kain_gonzalez/c1cpnuo0wef2/wish/260811011