The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Presented by: Dariana Zuzuarregui

 Francis Scott Fitzgerald
● Born St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896 and died in 1940
● Attended Princeton University where he wrote for
undergraduate publications
● Joined the army in 1917
● Published his first book This side of Paradise(1920)
● The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the night (1934),
Flappers and Philosophers(1920), The Beautiful And
Damned (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926)
Historical context
● Prohibition Era
● The Jazz Age
● Roaring twenties
● Rise of wealth
“Jay Gatsby”
● Struck from poverty
● Met a millionaire and fell in love with wealth
and luxury
● Achieved his mysterious wealth from
bootlegging
● Throws ravishing parties every week
● Stakes everything on his dreams
● Lives in West Egg
● A dreamer and hopeful
Daisy Buchanan

● former lover of Gatsby

● Is married to Tom Buchanan
● Wealthy, sophisticated, graceful,
charming
● Fickle, shallow, bored, cynical
● Represents the moral values of East Egg
Nick Carraway
● Narrator of the story
● Neighbors with Gatsby
● Prestigious family
● Daisy’s is his cousin
● Starts dating jordan Baker
● Serves as a confidant for every character
● tolerant , open minded, quiet, good
listener
● Returns to Minnesota
● Lives on West Egg (Belongs to East Egg)
Characters
Tom Buchanan

● Daisy’s Husband
● Arrogant, hypocritical, bully
● Social attitudes are based on sexism and
racism Jordan Baker
● Adulterer ● Daisy’s wealthy friend
● Lives on East Egg ● Nick’s girlfriend
● Golfer
● Dishonest
● Lives on East Egg
 Characters
Myrtle Wilson Klipspringer
● Pianist who freeloads off of Jay
● Tom Buchanan’s Mistress Gatsby
● Extremely desperate
● Lives in the valley of ashes Meyer Wolfsheim
● George Wilson’s wife ● Gatsby’s friend
● Organized crime
Dan Cody ● Helped Gatsby make his fortune
● a wealthy copper mogul
● Made Jay his assistant
George Wilson
● Husband of Myrtle
● owner of a run-down auto shop at
the edge of the valley of ashes
Symbols

● “Valley of ashes”
● “ the green light”
● “Doctor T.J. Eckleburg’s eyes”
Quotes

“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that
you may come across four or five times in life. It faced, or seemed to face, the
whole external world for an instant and then concentrated on you with an
irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to
be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself.”

“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—tomorrow we will run faster,
stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on,
boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
Word Collage
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