born in 1896 in st. paul Minnesota

-mothers name is molly.

-he had a very pampered childhood

-had two sisters who died at childbirth

-mother was the daughter of the reverend -fitzy was very proud of heritage

-family moved to New York, then lost money and moved back to St. Paul

-in school, he strived to be popular

-he got his first work published in high school at 13

-16 years old: attended private school in New Jersey

-went to Princeton college and met a professor who motivated him

-he enrolled in the army, but war never happened

-career began at Princeton

-he wrote for the Princeton tiger, the school publication

-he dropped out the army before he ever went to war

-he wrote his first book that got rejected, then rejected again, then accepted uner the name “this side of paradise”

-his career took off after that book

-also wrote about the jazz age in “the great Gatsby” which was not a success until after his death

-also wrote “the beautiful and the damned”

-he had a lot of money but he feared the new life which he wrote about in “the beautiful and the damned” -wrote about flappers and philosophers and tales of the jazz age -also wrote “all these sad men”

-didn’t write for a while after alcohol problems

-life was wasted and early death

-engaged to Zelda sare who was a “southern bell”

-zelda broke off marriage and then back on when he got famous

-known for their partying but got in huge fights

-lived beyond their means, in lots of debt

-had a daughter named “Scotty” -moved to france where he wrote “the great Gatsby”

-went into debt with his wife’s illness and his daughter’s too

. -he had a mental collapse and began his alcoholism

-got back on his feet but not for long,

-died at 44 of heart attack in 1940

-zelda had an affair in france, which didn’t help relationship

-born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1900, youngest of 6 children

-spoiled by parents

-met fitzy at station, sent love letter which he used in his books

-when he got published, she married him

-they partied and spent money, they were “socialites”

-became flappers -inspired characters for fitzy’s writing

-tried artistic expression but had a mental breakdown and had to stay in hospitals for the rest of her life died in 1948-was in a sanitorium and locked in a room when the mental hospital caught fire and she burned to death

-wrote book called “save me the waltz” in 1932 about her relationship but fitzgerald stole most of her ideas

-unconventional and short friendship

-began in paris in 1925 when fitz was 28 and hemingway was 25

-fitz was already a published writer, but hemingway was only a little published

-fitz decided to take him under his wing and help his career but heminway didn’t return the love -vocal in his dislike of Zelda

-strongest part of relationship relationship was 1925-1926 -hemingway continued the attacks and there are letters from his publicist that hemingway would gossip was fitz

-hemingway wrote “sun also rises” about fitz

-they were frenemies -there were rumors that they were gay together, terrified zelda

• Impacted society:

o 1893—first American automobile manufacturing company: Duryea wagon company

o 1902—Old motor vehicle company “Ods mobile”

o 1902—Ford—Cadillac—popular

o Winton Motor Carriage Company—popular

o Wealthy, status, fun, racing o Life developed around cars

o Brick roads layered with asphalt

o Drive-in movies o New jobs—little pay

o Few traffic regulations

• Drastic clothing change

• Younger women wore short skirts, slits, easy to dance in

• Low-cut dresses, tight-fitted shirts

• Jean Patou—designer—2 piece shorts / slits, sportswear

• Elsa Schiaparelli—tunics to modern fashion

o Simple, elegant gowns

•Men:

o Sacque suit—big o More colors of suits / shirts / silk ties with patterns

o Bowler hats o Black patent leather pants

o Knicker-bockers—low shorts, big pockets

o Jazz clothing in, then out of style quickly

o Shoes—laced up, 2 toned

• Inferior to men • Suffragists:

1. Susan B. Anthony

o Tried to vote in the 1872 Pres. Election

o Susan B. Anthony Amendment

2. Lucy Stone o Merged with Susan to create: 1869—National American Women’s Suffrage Association

3. Elizabeth Caddy Stanton o You know, she was there and stuff

• All three rallied

• 13 states in west, 2 in east granted women’s suffrage (portray values)

• 19th Amendment of 1919

• Tennessee—1920—last to give suffrage

• Louie Armstrong, Duke Ellington, George Gushwan

• TV: Winnie the Pooh, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse

• Charlie Chaplin:

o Silent movie actor

o Idle Class, A Woman in Paris, The Kid

• Oct. 1927 Warner Bros first movie

• 1st Miss America Contest 1921

• Magic—Popular—Houdini

• First radio broadcast 1920

• Demand for jobs (good) little pay (not good)

• Goods that they were manufacturing were too expensive for ordinary people to buy

• Made too much stuff, overlay, people fired

• Black Thursday—Oct 24, 1929

o Everyone sold their stocks

o Stocks went down in value the next day

o Black Tues—Oct. 29, 1929

• Led to Great Depression

• Stock Market Crash

• Housing Market was bad