The Great Gatsby context
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- The Great Gatsby context
- Discrimination
- The Rise of the Coloured Empires
- Based on a book by Stoddard called The Rising Tide of Colour: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy
- Tom Buchanan references him as "Goddard"
- Focusses on maintaining racial purity
- Based on a book by Stoddard called The Rising Tide of Colour: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy
- American eugenics movement
- Late nineteenth century - 1940s
- Supported selective breeding in order to eradicate undesirable traits.
- Immigration Act 1924
- Prejudice against ethnic minorities
- The Rise of the Coloured Empires
- Fitzgerald
- Similarities to Nick
- Born in Minnesota
- Attended an Ivy League University
- Moved to New York after the war
- Similarities to Gatsby
- Idealises wealth and social class
- Loves a woman out of his social class
- However, Gatsby did not indulge in the decadent lifestyle, unlike Fitzgerald
- Similarities to Nick
- Women
- 19th Amendment
- Gave women the right to vote
- Fashion became more masculine
- Both "Jordan" and "Baker" were makes of cars in the 1900s
- 19th Amendment
- The American Dream
- If one worked hard enough, they would be successful and wealthy
- Fitzgerald believed the American Dream was simply the pursuit of wealth
- Media
- Due to more and more products, advertising was more available
- Dr T J Eckleburg
- A key word in advertising was reliability
- "Everybody had seen" Gatsby's car
- Due to the film industry, photography saw a renaissance
- Photography is a leitmotif in the Great Gatsby
- Photographs symbolise importance in one's life, and also the freezing of a moment
- Photography is a leitmotif in the Great Gatsby
- Gatsby rebrands himself
- Due to more and more products, advertising was more available
- Consumerism
- Conspicuous consumerism
- Coined by Veblen
- A critique of the rise of power of the wealthy, and how they presented this in pretentious ways
- Conspicuous consumerism
- Crime
- Prohibition Act of 1919
- People sold alcohol at speakeasies
- Rosenthal
- Shot by gangsters
- Rothstein
- Fixed the 1919 World Series
- Prohibition Act of 1919
- Discrimination
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