Jealousy

Jealousy is an emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, such as a relationship, friendship, or love. Jealousy often consists of a combination of emotions such as anger, sadness, and disgust. It is not to be confused with envy.

Jealousy makes Daisy keep bringing Tom along to Gatsby’s parties even if she is truly devoted to Gatsby. She flaunts her love affair in front of Tom. Tom is having an affair. Everyone knows about it. She wants her revenge. However, she never plans on leaving him. Daisy after all is human. This explains why when Gatsby forces the confrontation, she backs down.

At the hotel room in New York, Tom strikes Myrtle across the mouth, and he is demeaning toward George Wilson at his garage. Later, he manipulates George by playing upon his hatred and jealousy of Gatsby by leading Wilson to believe that Gatsby, as the lover of Myrtle, is responsible for her death -- a strategic play in order for him to "win" and save Daisy's reputation.

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Gangsters & Mafias of the 1920's

Al Capone

Jay Gatsby

Bonnie&Clyde

Speakeasies

Gangsters were people that took part in illegal actions, and a group of them was known as a mafia. The mafia was known to be engaged in many illegal activities such as smuggling, racketeering, and murders. In 1920's after prohibition which banned alcohol, more gang related activities were occurring. Gang members in the 1920's were involved in bootlegging and bank robberies.

Al Capone, Bonnie & Clyde, and John Dillinger were one of the most notorious criminals of their time period. Al Capone smuggled and bootlegged liquor since it was illegal in the 1920's. He had opened up many illegal bars in Chicago. He was sent to Federal prison, and stayed some time Alcatraz prison, for tax fraud.

In the Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby who is one of the man characters in the novel is involved in gang related activities. Jay and Mr. Wolfsheim are involved in smuggling and bootlegging liquor. The whole time in the book, Jay lies about how he is so rich, and at the end he reveals his true identity.

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Unrequited Love

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896. As a young man he went to St. Paul academy where he wrote his first story, which was a detective story in the school newspaper. In 1913 he attended Princeton University where he wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club. Since Fitzgerald could not attend college because of financial purposes he dropped out and joined the army in 1917.

While he was assigned in at base in the army, Fitzgerald fell in love with eighteen year old Zelda Sayre who was the daughter of Alabama's Supreme Court judge. As time passed by, he tried to write novels, but they were rejected by the editors. Soon, he had quite the army and his relationship between him and Zelda was falling apart. After he quite, he wrote the Novel The Side of Paradise.

He started to write more novels, and magazine articles and became a very wealthy man. After he published The Side of Paradise, he married Zelda a week latter. They both lived an extravagant life as young celebrities. As time went by both of them became hard-core alcoholics. The moved a couple time to U.S. and back to Europe until they finally settled in the west. There, Fitzgerald worked in Hollywood.

On December 21, 1940, Fitzgerald died from a heart attack. Zelda had perished at a fire at a hospital in 1948. Fitzgerald is mostly known for his book, The Great Gatsby and is known as one of the best writers in the Jazz Age.

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Old vs. New Money

Old money refers to families who have been wealthy for several generations. In traditional European societies have inherited a large house filled with well-built furniture acquired over the centuries. Their cars are not necessarily the most expensive and capable, but have a bit of restraint, or else they disguise their social position in cars of the middle rank. In reality, however, old money in America wasn’t very old. It was simply that the behavior of some individuals who acquired wealth very quickly offended others. New Money is also known as Nouveau Riche, a term, usually derogatory, to describe persons who acquire wealth within their generation, and spend it conspicuously. The benchmark of the nouveau riche is their acquiring possessions which are touted to them as being the sort of things that rich people would possess. Some of them are equally resentful of the old rich, for them being undeserving of their wealth. For example, many self-made millionaires rose from the middle class, and detest being looked down upon by someone who has not proven themselves to be worthy of their wealth, by simply having inherited it.

In the 1920s most Americans were in pursuit of the infamous American Dream.? The American dream was to be rich, successful, happy, and to be one of the social elites. However, the few that got there were labeled the new money. The new money is different from the old because the old never had to work for it. The old money treated the new money differently than ordinary people, but still deemed them inferior. People got to the top by which ever means they could. Americans put their values and morals away to reach the unreachable dream.

The Roaring 1920's

Henry Ford's Model T Car

Speakeasies

Charleston Dance

The 1920's was a time period where everything had changed in America from economically, politically, and socially. The 1920's was also known as the Jazz Age. Jazz is what people listened , danced, and sang too. Most popular dance was called he Charleston. The time period was also known as the Roaring 1920's because of the changes in technology, new discoveries, and new inventions.

Prohibition in the 1920's also provided well-known gangsters to open up illegal bars called speakeasies. One of the most known speak easies was the Al Capone. During the time period Ku Klux Klan was growing and the nation nation was at its highest crime rates at the time.

Cars was a new invention in the 20's. Mass production of cars started by Henry Ford had manufactured over 15 million cars and sold as much as that by 1927. Fashion in the 1920's had turned to a new generation. Women no more wore stuffy clothes. They wore cloths at there comfort (flapper style) and wanted to look youthful. Many inventions were made during the Roaring 1920's. The birth of the commercial radio was the t.v. in the 1920's. The radio would give people news, provide entertainment, and new ideas.

Americas worst nightmare had occurred when on October 24th, 1929 the stock market had crashed, leading the nation into the Great Depression.

Prohibition in the 1920's

In the history of the United States, Prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, was the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Under substantial pressure from the temperance movement, the United States Senate proposed the Eighteenth Amendment on December 18, 1917. Having been approved by 36 states, the 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919 and effected on January 16, 1920. Some state legislatures had already enacted statewide prohibition prior to the ratification of the 18th Amendment.

During Prohibition, the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal. Prohibition was supposed to lower crime and corruption, reduce social problems, lower taxes needed to support prisons and poorhouses, and improve health and hygiene in America. Instead, Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; organized crime blossomed; courts and prisons systems became overloaded; and endemic corruption of police and public officials occurred.

On December 5, 1933, the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.