The women of this era can be defined  in two different words : defiant and foolish. Women began to take a step forward in society during the 1920's and this novel explores these phenomena. As women in the novel start to detach themselves from the stereotypical proper and prim manner in society. In the novel, it is perfectly all right for women to drink and conduct themselves wildly at parties just as men do. They express their views much more, and begin to take control of their newly established place in society. Daisy, was treated as in inferior for years in her relationship with Tom. She allowed herself to be degraded as her husband overpowered her, Daisy eventually gets back at him and finaly breaks loose rom him when she has an affair with Gatsby.Women also are extremely foolish, and easily used by men. Like Tom and Myrtle, how he uses her.He uses her for fun, and never intends on having a relationship with her. He goes to her when he wants to, and she will always be there waiting for him. Tom doesn't have respect for her, but she always goes back to him.Women are also shown as gossipers and out of control. Like at paarties at Gatsby's house the are drinking getting drunk to the point where the cant walk or talk. At Tom and Myrtles party, Mytle's sister is gossiping to her friends and giving out the wrong information.The novel shows women as becoming upsess with the 'perfect American life.' The women are shown to anything to meet the unachievable standards that the American Dream puts out. And this recklessness, defiance and foolishness are clearly shown in The Great Gatsby.

Dan Cody

When James Gatz decided and to actually changed his name was when he was 17.That  was also the moment that began his career. Dan Cody had a very big part in this moment of Gatsby's life.When  James Gatz met Dan Cody he was walking along the beach wearing a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants. James was the one that whent up to Dan first in that moment a frienship had started. Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor over an insidious flat on Lake Superior. When James saw this, he borrowed a rowboat, and pulled out to where Cody was on the water to help him and warn him that winds are coming. The transactions in Montana copper made Cody a great millionaire. Cody was softminded, and naive, and many young women took advantage of this. One woman in particular, Ella Kaye, a newspaper woman, took advantage of his weakness. Over the next few years, Gatsby was steward, mate, skipper, secretary and even jailer for Dan Cody. But  Dan Cody had a thirst for alcohol and drank continuously. Upon the return of Ella Kaye one night in Boston, Dan Cody was hospitalize and died. Dan Cody did influence Gatsby in many ways; most importantly, watching Cody's excessive drinking, made Gatsby drink very little. A portrait of Cody hangs on Gatsby's wall.

The Great Gatsby Film Versions

The Great Gatsby based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald bombed when it was released in 1974. Jack Clayton directected it and uses the script by Francis Ford Coppola written a few years earlier. Coppola disowned his screenplay when he saw the movie, because he felt the movie adaptation ruined his work. The movie follows the novel almost, scene-by-scene, paying great attention to details like colors and scenery. It is a faithful, but lackluster adaptation that lacks any depth. It tries, but it never succeeds to do the Great American Novel justice and instead it drags on for two and a half hours without making a point or addressing any of Fitzgerald's themes. The great attention paid to details such as hair-cuts, period suits and sophisticated design and setting impressively captures the essence of the roaring twenties. The lavish parties thrown by Gatsby at his beautiful house are the most noteworthy as they capture the spirit of the times and stay true to the novel. This visual authenticity was rewarded in the form of two Oscar grabs for best musical score and best costume at the 1975 Academy Awards. Similarly, all characters look the parts well enough.That takes care of the visual. However, as Redford struggles to add depth to the character of Great Gatsby, he was left with a mediocre Gatsby who is too self-assured and not dreaming enough. The beautiful Lois Chiles was the light of this film. She was perfect for the part of Jordon Baker. The biggest problem with this book-to-film adaptation is lack of depth around Gatsby's and Daisy's relationship. It appears to have been transformed into a lustful love-story and strayed away from important themes and motives, such as why the characters feel the way they feel or do the things they do. It is hard to translate The Great Gatsby onto screen, as the strength of the novel is its richness of language, symbolism and imagery. To include all of these aspects in a film would make it visually overblown and perhaps detract from important details. The symbolism of the novel is mostly lost, however; the color green which is so important in. The lack of green grass visible during Gatsby's vivacious parties was a low point as the grass holds great symbolism for Gatsby's yearning to renew his life and start over again with a fresh start, new friends and a new outlook on life. A subtle background use of the color green might also have helped this movie in addressing the American Dream. The Great Gatsby is a fantastic portrayal of an of the 1920s but does not do F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel justice in the least. Perhaps this is why, being a fan of the source material, that Coppola disowned his screenplay.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the Scott Key is from his second cousin three times removed from the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given name indicates his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. They were both were Catholics. He died on December 21, 1940. He is often regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories.

Flappers

During the 1920s a new found freedom in women occurred, and everyone knew it was the dawning of the age of the flappers. The flapper style the way women were dressed during the 1920s they were called this because of there short cropped hair, short (by those days standards) skirts. Flappers also began to wear make-up, drink, smoke, vote, and dance at parties. this was the style during the 1920s and thus relevant to the era and setting of The Great Gatsby. the flappers were also the first to carry flasks on there person traditionally in there leggings.

Prohibition

Prohibition happend in the 1920's, it was a time when all alcoholic beverges were illegal to all ages. All the alcohol had to be thrown away or dumped into sewerges. Every bar or club had to either stop selling alcoholic beverges or complety shut down becaues they werent making any money due to the fact that they couldnt sell alcohol. But some bars and clubs (Speakeasies) were sneeking drinks to people that were willing to the chance of getting in trouble. When that didnt work people whent to the locol mobster/gangster to pruchase alcohol from them. Prohibition was to reduce crime , solve social problems and improve the hygiene of america. But this planned backfired the crime rate sky rocketed and prisons were getting packed. Prohibitin started in 1920 and by 1966 all across Americaprohibition was terminated!

1920's

The 1920's was given the nickname, "The Roaring Twenties" because this is the era when lifestyles completely changed and new technology was coming about. What was also starting to come out and be notorious in big cities was alcohol and drugs, as these things started to come out so did mobster and gangsters such as Al Capone to supply peoples needs. With drugs and alcohol flowing through peoples bodies, they started to loosen up and party and have a ball, people started to dance to the sounds of the new technology which was the radio, which started new dance fads and clothing fads. The 1920's was an explosion of new fads and technology which started a chian reaction for upcoming eras.

East egg vs. West egg

The story the great gastby takes place in 2 locations mainly west egg and east egg. gatsbys and
nick carraway's house are both in the west egg. where as tom and daisy buchanan


East Egg seems to be filled with the old, conservative, aristocratic, who have made there fortunes in the past and have connections to the rest of the other wealthy people in the area. comparatively West Egg is characterized by lavish displays of wealth and garish poor taste.
West Egg is home to the “new rich,” those who, having made their fortunes recently, have neither the social connections nor the refinement to move among the East Egg set.

mafia/ gangsters

Prohibition started in the 1920's and is the time period when alcohol was considered illegal by all forms of government. By making this alchohol substance illgal gangsters started to emerge from their slumber in the 1920's and began to take over cities by using their smarts and taking advantage of the wants of the people. The mafia and gangsters were smart because they saw that many people wanted to comsume alcohol because the effects caused the people to have a good time, so they started illegal businesses that distributes alcohol to poeple who wanted it. These institutions were called "speak-easies" where liqour and alcohol was distributed to those who paid the money and knew the secret password to get into the bar. With more and more people desiring the acoholic beverage the more that they seeked out the distibutors. The distributors were the gangsters and because of all the demand they pumped out the product and they gained power very rapidly. Within time Mobs grew to power and fought with one another to keep that power. During this time it was the Italian mafia that had the most power. It was during this time period that the ideal suave and powerful gangster was born.

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