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GRAPES AND GATSBY AO3 - Coggle Diagram
GRAPES AND GATSBY AO3
WOMEN
GRAPES
Patriarchal structure of the family - men as breadwinners, women as carers
GATSBY
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Cult of True Womanhood - world of capitalism and power was dirty; women had to be domestic goddesses to 'purify' the home
True Woman = pious, pure, submissive and domestic
WEALTH/POVERTY
GRAPES
Majority of people in poverty in Great Depression as the banks that had failed lost the loans that many farmers had taken out to get machinery
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GATSBY
Great new wealth through trading/stocks, as shares continued to rise in an optimistic economy
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Growing upper class, split into 'old' and 'new' money - not every rich person was necessarily respectable
OUTSIDERS AND MIGRANTS
GRAPES
Steinbeck worked at govt labour camps and travelled with migrants to understand and accurately portray them
Steinbeck born and rained in Salinas, California, where TGOW was banned for being inflammatory
GATSBY
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Increased industrialisation, use of cars etc = opportunity to travel
CAPITALISM, CRIME AND GREED
GRAPES
post-WW1 drop in demand as European economies recuperated meant that US agricultural system was overproducing
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GATSBY
Organised crime, Prohibition, speakeasies etc made criminality and greed less heinous moral shortcomings
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THE AMERICAN DREAM
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GATSBY
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Increased advertising and stock prices promoted consumerism as indicative of success in the American Dream
IDENTITY
GRAPES
Philosophies of Jeffersonian Agrarianism and the Oversoul marked a departure from Christianity as the marginalised lost faith in their institutions - PRAGMATIC BELIEF
Emersonian theory of the Oversoul = similar to socialism, where everyone is equal and socially responsible for one another
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SETTINGS
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GATSBY
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Idea of American pioneering spirit in Nick and Gatsby, discovering American identity
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