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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

WHY ARE WE TALKING AB OUT HER?

Many themes in Gatsby

regarding women

Daisy and Myrtle

Author of A Pair of Silk

Stockings, which we will

be reading

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

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.”

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

THE GREAT GATSBY (FILM)

Adapted a total of FOUR

times

We will be watching

snippets from the 2013

version

Baz Luhrmann

Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey

Mulligan, Tobey Maguire


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