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Intro to Chopin, Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby

Intro to Chopin, Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby. Background Information. Kate Chopin. American author of short stories and novels (1850-1904) Most famous for The Awakening : WAY ahead of it’s time and highly criticized (made her turn to short stories) Writer of feminist literature.

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Intro to Chopin, Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby

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  1. Intro to Chopin, Fitzgerald, and The Great Gatsby Background Information

  2. Kate Chopin • American author of short stories and novels (1850-1904) • Most famous for The Awakening: WAY ahead of it’s time and highly criticized (made her turn to short stories) • Writer of feminist literature

  3. Why are we talking about her? • Many themes in Gatsby regarding women • Daisy and Myrtle • Author of A Pair of Silk Stockings, which we will be reading

  4. F. Scott Fitzgerald • American author of novels and short stories (The Great Gatsby) • Came from a family with little money • Married a woman named Zelda Sayre • Hated by Hemingway • Inspiration for novels/ stories • Later diagnosed as a schizophrenic • Late became a raging alcoholic

  5. Great Fitzgerald quotes • “Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy” • “Genius is the ability to put into effect what’s in your mind” • “A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.”

  6. The Great Gatsby • Written in 1925 • Fitzgerald’s masterpiece • Took passages from his other short stories to write it • It was a “flop” when first published • Daisy= Zelda

  7. The Great Gatsby (film) • Adapted a total of FOUR times • We will be watching snippets from the 2013 version • BazLuhrmann • Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire

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