https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2020-09-29 12:48:41 UTC 2026-01-31 23:43:58 UTC hello@padlet.com nhussey1973 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787563918 1920 -age of expense, wealth and exuberance. Before Wall Street Crash - great class divide.]]> 2020-09-29 12:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787563918 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787574850 Francis Scott Fitzgerald had an early rise to stardom, a reckless celebrity lifestyle, romantic but troubled marriage, decline into alcoholism and premature death in 1940]]> 2020-09-29 12:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787574850 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787582678 He puts New York at the centre of American business, wealth and entertainment ]]> 2020-09-29 12:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787582678 08cummingsh https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787582764 The 1920’s were seen as a period of uninterrupted economic progress. High rise buildings with steel frames were built in Chicago at the end of the 19th century but New York soon had the highest building. ]]> 2020-09-29 12:55:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787582764 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787583674 Fitzgerald was impetuous, energetic, a tease who liked to be teased]]> 2020-09-29 12:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787583674 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787586569 The west has always been a symbol of opportunity and freedom for Americans because pioneers pushed westward in pursuit of wealth when the first settlers arrived in the USA]]> 2020-09-29 12:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787586569 08cummingsh https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787591064 America joined the war in April 1917. 
By September 1918, more than a million troops were involved in the Battle of Argonne (where Nick and Gatsby were present). ]]> 2020-09-29 12:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787591064 08cummingsh https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787598707 In 1920, the manufacture, sale and transportation of intoxicating liquor was outlawed. ]]> 2020-09-29 12:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787598707 08cummingsh https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787602893 Depression in agriculture led to migration to cities from farms. People moved to urban areas to find prosperity. ]]> 2020-09-29 13:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787602893 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787610440

He met Zelda Sayre, a kindred spirit with a similarly uninhibited and reckless love of life, with whom he fell passionately in love.

She was from a socially prominent family, however, and she refused to marry Fitzgerald until he was a financial success

Fitzgerald adored Zelda, but they had a very stormy relationship

]]> 2020-09-29 13:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787610440 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787622617 The American dream was that if you worked hard enough you would be able to make yourself into something special. Whereas in reality that isn’t the case because people like Tom who are born into money will always be of a higher status]]> 2020-09-29 13:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787622617 08cummingsh https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787626205 Young people turned their backs on politics and rebelled against old-fashioned ways of thinking. Women, having entered the workforce whilst the men were at war, refused to give up their social freedom. In 1920, women were given the right to vote. Women cut their hair short, abandoned their corsets and reinvented themselves as ‘flappers’ ]]> 2020-09-29 13:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787626205 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787638006

Fitzgerald was living the American Dream: he was young and good-looking, and he had earned money and early success through his own hard work.

He and Zelda were already partying wildly, drinking excessively and making exhibitions of themselves, just to get into the news

]]> 2020-09-29 13:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787638006 08cummingsh https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787639342 ‘Flappers’ represent a symbol of age. Younger women wore shorter dresses, had short, bobbed hair, wore makeup and smoke and drank. ]]> 2020-09-29 13:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787639342 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787648833 Industrialisation brought prosperity for the nation, turning the US into a great world power. However workers where often exploited as their safety and welfare were neglected in the pursuit of high profits.]]> 2020-09-29 13:11:37 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787648833 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787649702 Fitzgerald was seduced by the wild and extravagant life of the rich, and he wanted to be at the heart of it, like Gatsby, but he was also aware of the moral emptiness and like hypocrisy beneath the excitement.]]> 2020-09-29 13:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787649702 https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787659911 In towns people relied on bootleggers to satisfy their demands. But in rural areas people made their own moonshine. ]]> 2020-09-29 13:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nhussey1973/gatcon/wish/787659911