NEWSPAPER PRESENTATION

THE GREAT GATSBY

lasted from 1920 to 1933. During this time the selling, the drinking, and the transportation of alcohol were prohibited to reduce violence and crime.

The prohibition,

As an apprentice writer, Nick Carraway moves from the mid-west to New York City. Wanting his share of the American dream, he now lives with a mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who gets dizzy at parties, and his cousin Daisy and her flighty husband, Tom Buchanan, of noble blood.

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LARONCHE Juliette

The Great Gatsby

Summary

The place of women

The atmosphere of speakeasy

The first shop they entenrred

The people who attend the speakeasy

The relashion ship between the 3 main caracters

The effects of prohibition

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The place of Women

Women are shown in this video as objects to entertain men, to animate the speakeasy. They are employes of the bar : they are waitresses, dancers, singers, ... They are less numerous than men in this bar.

The atmosphere of speakeasy

The atmosphere in the speakeasy seems heavier and livelier than in the barber shop. The room is crowded, but also dark because it is in the underground. There is a lot of noise, people, alcohol and smoke. Many people are being kicked out because of violence caused by too much alcohol.

The effects of prohibition

Prohibition led to the creation of speakeasies and bootlegging. bootlegging intensified and brought violence, crime, and other violent actions caused by thealcohol. Prohibition did not help. In the video we see that a man is expelled because he is drunk. Moreover the worms in hands, and the bottles on the tables as well as the barman, allow us to understand that we are well in a speakeasy.

The people in the speakeasy are wealthy and upper class as you can see that they are all wearing suits with ties. Some of them even have a cane. Gatsby talks with a commissioner who is there as a customer. We also find in the bar bartenders, dancers, musicians, and men doing security. One of them is evicting a drunk man. All the people in this bar seem to know each other.

The people who attend the speakeasy

The first store the two friends enter is a barbershop reserved for wealthy men. The store in which the characters find themselves is airy, bright and calm. The customers look relaxed and serene, yet they all know that behind a picture on the wall is a speakeasy in the basement.

The first shop they enterred

M. Mill Wood Sha

M. Gatsby

M. Carroway

The relashion ship between the 3 main caracters

Gatsby is friends with Mr. Carraway (the youngest) and Mr. Mile wood sha (the oldest). He introduces the two men who do not know each other.Longtime friends, Gatsby and wood sha are happy to meet again and hug each other, while wood sha and Mr. Carroway are simply cordial as they barely meet.

M. Gatsby

M. Carroway

M. Mill Wood Sha

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