The Great Gatsby & The Roaring Twenties

About The Great Gatsby

• Even though this novel was written in 1925, its style and content would be categorized as a work of the Romantic Period of literature.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered to be one of the primary spokesmen of the era he named the "Jazz Age" - the period beginning with the end of WW I in 1918 and ending with the stock market crash in 1929.
• The Great Gatsby is considered to be his finest work and , in fact, one of the classic masterpieces of American Literature. 

About the Roaring Twenties

• Music was important
• People danced the Charleston.
• The Depression started.
• Fitzgerald was a spokesperson for his generation.
• Fitzgerald captured the American Dream - its good and bad points.