F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer during the time of transition from a rigid, patriarchal society to a more modern and reformed time. Social norms of society broke as new opportunities were given to women. With the 20s also came a time of industrialization and the world war. Immigrants, women, and children all began to work in factories and buying war bonds in order to support the men who had gone to fight in the war. These new opportunities brought about new social classes based on wealth. The rich increased their wealth substantially; the poor slowly began to move up in the financial ladder but for the most part stayed at the bottom of the social status. A new middle class also arose. Fitzgerald exposes the corruption of society in the 1920’s
