The Great Gatsby Research Paper
Carmen Miranda Final Paper American Literature * Key Facts * Full Title: The Great Gatsby * Genre: Novel * Setting: Long Island, Queens, and Manhattan, New York in the summer of 1922 * Climax: The showdown between Gatsby and Tom over Daisy * Protagonist: Jay Gatsby * Antagonists: Tom Buchanan * Narrator: Nick Carraway * Point of View: First person * Historical and Literary Context * Where Written: Paris and the US, in 1924 * When Published: 1925 * Literary Period: Modernism
The Great Gatsby is a novel written F. Scott Fitzgerald based on “The great depression” that took place in the 1920’s (also known as the “Roaring Twenties”) and lasted until 1929 when Wall Street Crashed.
The Great Gatsby represents a complex mix of emotions and themes that reflect …show more content…
The early 1920's were the heyday of American wealth and excess, and Long Island was where New York's wealthiest resided in opulent mansions. Although the prohibition banning the sale of alcohol was in effect, that did not stop the partying lifestyle of the young well-to-do socialites of Long Island, who kicked up their heels at privately hosted parties. Fashion, alcohol, jazz were the order of the day (an age that was brought to an abrupt end with the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression).
Fitzgerald finished the draft after he moved to France, and completed the editorial revisions whilst living in Rome. There were several proposals for the title of the book, with Fitzgerald himself not all that keen on the title The Greaty Gatsby, but influence from his wife, Zelda, and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, led him to accept the title "as fair, rather bad than good". It was published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, being Fitzgerald's third
The Great Gatsby is a novel written F. Scott Fitzgerald based on “The great depression” that took place in the 1920’s (also known as the “Roaring Twenties”) and lasted until 1929 when Wall Street Crashed.
The Great Gatsby represents a complex mix of emotions and themes that reflect …show more content…
The early 1920's were the heyday of American wealth and excess, and Long Island was where New York's wealthiest resided in opulent mansions. Although the prohibition banning the sale of alcohol was in effect, that did not stop the partying lifestyle of the young well-to-do socialites of Long Island, who kicked up their heels at privately hosted parties. Fashion, alcohol, jazz were the order of the day (an age that was brought to an abrupt end with the Wall Street crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression).
Fitzgerald finished the draft after he moved to France, and completed the editorial revisions whilst living in Rome. There were several proposals for the title of the book, with Fitzgerald himself not all that keen on the title The Greaty Gatsby, but influence from his wife, Zelda, and his editor, Maxwell Perkins, led him to accept the title "as fair, rather bad than good". It was published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, being Fitzgerald's third