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Cultural Context of The Great
Gatsby
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DO NOW
List 3-5 things that come to mind when you think of the “Jazz Age” or the
“Roaring Twenties”
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WORLD WAR I
ended in 1918.
Disillusioned because of the war, the generation that fought and survived
has come to be called “the lost
generation.”
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THE ROARING TWENTIES
While the sense of loss was readily apparent among expatriate American artists who remained in Europe after the war, back home the disillusionment took a less obvious form.
America seemed to throw itself headlong into a decade of reckless behavior and materialism, a decade that has come to be called the Roaring Twenties.
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THE JAZZ AGE
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THE JAZZ AGE Improvised and wild, jazz music broke
the rules of music Likewise, many people in the Jazz Age
began to go against the rules of society Questioned morals and lived for the
pleasure of the moment Think Chicago (the musical, not the
city)
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THE NEW WOMAN
Among the rules broken were the age-old conventions guiding the behavior of women. The new woman demanded the right to vote and to work outside the home.
Symbolically, she cut her hair into a boyish “bob” and bared her calves in the short skirts of the fashionable twenties “flapper.”
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The “Flapper”
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Prohibition Another rule often broken was the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, or Prohibition, which banned the public sale of alcoholic beverages from 1919 until its appeal in 1933.
Speak-easies, nightclubs, and taverns that sold liquor were often raided, and gangsters made illegal fortunes as bootleggers, smuggling alcohol into America from abroad.
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People of all social statuses found creative ways around
prohibition (like this lady with
her boot), but the wealthy mostly ignored
the law.
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Bootlegger’s truck disguised as timber
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Most famous example: Black Sox Scandal of 19198 members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for accepting bribes to throw the World Series.
GAMBLING
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THE AUTOMOBILEThe Jazz Age was also an era of
reckless spending and consumption, and the most conspicuous status symbol of the time was a flashy new automobile.
Advertising was becoming the major industry that it is today, and soon advertisers took advantage of new roadways by setting up huge billboards at their sides.
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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Cultural, social, and artistic explosion
“The Great Migration”: African-American artists, writers, musicians flourished in Harlem and other metropolitan areas
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LITERARY MODERNISM
Experimentation
Style Subject Matter
The phrase “make it new,” attributed to Ezra Pound, became a rallying cry for writers in
this movement.
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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.”~F. Scott Fitzgerald