Play Guide [356k PDF] - Arizona Theatre Company

The Great GatsbyGLOSSARYWorld War I ReferencesDid You Know?Many scholars of The Great Gatsbybelieve that Fitzgerald created thename of Gatsby’s mentor, Dan Cody,by combining the names of DanielBoone (left) and Buffalo Bill Cody(right), both significant figures inOld West history and mythology.Allied: Also known as the Entente Powers, the Allied forcesincluded the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and eventually Italy,Japan, the United States, and several smaller countries. The Alliesfought against the Central Powers.Argonne Forest: A mountainous forest in northeastern France where the Meuse-ArgonneOffensive took place. This battle was the largest American operation of WWI, involvingover 1,000,000 soldiers. This battle was the final campaign in the American effort and itled to the Allied victory.Did You Know?The book mentioned in The Great Gatsby by Tom, The Rise of the Colored Empireby a fictitious author named Goddard, is a reference to a real-life book and authorof Fitzgerald’s era. The actual book was titled The Rising Tide of Color Against White-Supremacy by Stoddard, published in 1920. This book postulated that populationgrowth among “colored” peoples would result in the demise of the “white” race.Kaiser Wilhelm: The last German Emperor and King of Prussia. Kaiser Wilhelm was largelyresponsible for WWI. The German defeat in the war marked the end of his monarchy, which wasreplaced by the democratic Weimar Republic.Arizona Theatre Company Play Guide 48