The Great Gatsby Outline

Presenters

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B u i D i e u Ly
Tr a n H o a i T h u
Hoang Thi Phuong
Anh

H a n o i U n i v e r s i t y, A p r i l , 2 0 t h 2 0 1 5

Outline
Part 1:Introduction
- Plots
- Characters
Part 2: Influences on the novel
- Historical context
- Similarities between author’s life and the novel
Part 3: The American dream
- What is the American dream?
- Reflection of American dream on the Great Gatsby
- What can we learn from the Great Gatsby?
References

Nick Carraway

 Novel’s narrator, from
Minnesota
 Educated at Yale
 Fought in W.W.I
 Learns bond business.
 Honest, tolerant
 Gatsby’s neighbor

Nick Carraway by Tobey Maguire, the Great Gatsby movie 2013

Jay Gatsby
 Protagonist
 Fabulously wealthy
 Has opulent mansion on
Long Island
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• George Wilson, is convinced that Gatsby is the murder and Myrtle’s lover. •Wilson shoots Gatsby to death in his pool.

Wilson 's dead body is a few yards away.

Nick organizes a funeral, but none of the people who were supposedly Gatsby 's friends come. Only Gatsby 's father and one other man attend.

 Disgusted with the life on the East Coast, Nick moves back to
Minnesota.
 Before he leaves he walks down to Gatsby 's beach and looks out over
Long Island Sound. He thinks about Gatsby.

“All people must move forward with their arms outstretched toward the future, like boats traveling upstream against the current of the past.” Influences on the Novel
1. Historical context
2. Author’s life

I. Historical Context – the 1920s
 The 1920s, the era of changing.
 Nicknames: “the Roaring Twenties”, “the Jazz
Age”, and “the Age of Wonderful Nonsense”.

The 1920s: The Roaring Twenties
 After WWI
 New innovation: electricity, automobile
 Rapid growth of industry and mechanization
 Urbanization
 New" Golden Age" for America

The 1920s: Prohibition of Alcohol

 In 1919, making, transporting and selling