“America was going on the greatest gaudiest spree in history and there was going to be plenty to voice about it,” said F. Scott Fitzgerald elucidate the reality of the Roaring 1920’s. Though I like it to be described as an example of secondary succession, the Roaring 20’s was going through the rebirth of a disturbed area in Long Island, New York. Such a tasteless and violent time for celebration, during the Roaring 1920’s the United States in specifically New York, went on a joy ride through the bumps, the ups and downs and loop through loops of a roller coaster. The novel “The Great Gatsby” was a symbol of a time period of growth, prosperity and corruption of history in the 1920s. Despite the fun and celebration, the characters in the novel
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WW1 took billions and billions of the American money and millions of lives, which in some way would have to hopefully proliferate back to its starting point before the war even occurred. World War 1 bleed into the crash of the stock market to where even more billions of the American money was lost, and thousands of investors were wiped out. The crash of the stock market decreased the rate of employment and increased the rate of poverty, and of course the lower class began to grow in size due to the fact of this rough time. Being born into wealth was the only thing that could rescue you from being buried through this drought. Life became much harder when you had a family to look after and support, but as for the rich, the glass never broke for them. The lower class people of the “Valley Of Ashes” symbolized in “The Great Gatsby”, a dead, dull, and poor life, as the character and narrator Nick Carraway described as “a grotesque, burned out cold, and crumbling through the powdered air place.” In which most of the people in New York that was affected by historical events, were the dried out and low value people of the “Valley Of Ashes,” as represented in the novel. The roughest time of all then ran down to the deepest and long- lasting economic downfall in history known as The …show more content…
Though the quote was stated, the hopes and the pursuit of prosperity were dreams that never came to be fulfilled. Money and power was something people all wanted and knew they could possibly get it in the United States, as Nick represented as the “…green of the new world.” All of that goes back to the history of events that occurred and affected this dream of prosperity especially for the poor that lived in the Valley of Ashes. The idea of people immigrating to the United States had become once a fantasy. There was no point of people leaving where they’re from only to live under the Great Depression because nothing happy would have come about during the clamorous time of
WW1 took billions and billions of the American money and millions of lives, which in some way would have to hopefully proliferate back to its starting point before the war even occurred. World War 1 bleed into the crash of the stock market to where even more billions of the American money was lost, and thousands of investors were wiped out. The crash of the stock market decreased the rate of employment and increased the rate of poverty, and of course the lower class began to grow in size due to the fact of this rough time. Being born into wealth was the only thing that could rescue you from being buried through this drought. Life became much harder when you had a family to look after and support, but as for the rich, the glass never broke for them. The lower class people of the “Valley Of Ashes” symbolized in “The Great Gatsby”, a dead, dull, and poor life, as the character and narrator Nick Carraway described as “a grotesque, burned out cold, and crumbling through the powdered air place.” In which most of the people in New York that was affected by historical events, were the dried out and low value people of the “Valley Of Ashes,” as represented in the novel. The roughest time of all then ran down to the deepest and long- lasting economic downfall in history known as The …show more content…
Though the quote was stated, the hopes and the pursuit of prosperity were dreams that never came to be fulfilled. Money and power was something people all wanted and knew they could possibly get it in the United States, as Nick represented as the “…green of the new world.” All of that goes back to the history of events that occurred and affected this dream of prosperity especially for the poor that lived in the Valley of Ashes. The idea of people immigrating to the United States had become once a fantasy. There was no point of people leaving where they’re from only to live under the Great Depression because nothing happy would have come about during the clamorous time of