Similarities Between The Roaring Twenties And The Great Gatsby

The Roaring Twenties and The Great Gatsby The Roaring Twenties was a time right after World War One where people rejected their traditional, moral standards. It was a time when economic growth, technological advances, and change in social standards encouraged a lively youth culture centered around the automobile, jazz music and illegal work such as bootlegging. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a book that dealt with the roaring twenties and perfectly was able to represent the types of “class” throughout that time. The book is able to show us how some people got their money and what they did with it. Prohibition at that time caused many people to turn into criminals. We see women and how they followed a new style as a way of showing their …show more content…
Both women and men were causing a social revolution. Women were so happy about their ability to vote and their new freedom and independence.. The image of a flapper was created during this time. In The Great Gatsby, Jordan Baker, the tennis player, was seen as a flapper at Gatsby’s parties. Most women during this time was seen as a flapper. Women’s dresses became shorter and they would smoke, and drink and dance the swing. Their purpose is to see what great things they can achieve. Jordan definitely has the attitude and determination to be something great. She has a desire for success and a very strong attitude. Fashion was a major change throughout this decade. Women were showing more skin and forgetting about their traditional values. “They prized style over substance, novelty over tradition, and pleasure over virtue.” Not only did women start losing their morals but so did the men. As seen in the Great Gatsby they have affairs with women even though they are married. Tom is married to Daisy but sees Myrtle on the side. Daisy isn 't dumb and she knows that he is seeing someone else but she still stays with him. She knows she is stable being married to Tom. Myrtle does the same thing with her husband George. She’s married but is having an affair with Tom. She 's so obsessed and in love with the thought of being in a higher class but she would never be …show more content…
Their are the rich, the middle class, and the poor. Fitzgerald shows the different types of rich people. There is the people who were born into it, known as the “old money”. Then the people who came from a low class background that were able to get money from illegal businesses are known was “ new money”. Daisy, Tom and Jordan are the “ old money” rich. They were born into it and have had money ever since they were young due to their family. Gatsby is the “ new money” type of rich. He was born in North Dakota to a very poor farming family. As he grew up he knew he couldn 't keep living like this. He changed his name and became someone completely different. As said in the book, “ He was son of God...and he must be about His Father’s business, the service of a vast, vulgar, meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Many rumors were said about his new wealthy life but he was a very famous bootlegger and that’s how he encountered all of his money. Then there 's the middle class such as Nick. He comes from a family with a bit of wealth but isn 't in the same range as Tom and Daisy. The poor characters showed in the book were George, Myrtle, and the people who live in the Valley of The Ashes.The Valley of Ashes is overlooked by the eyes of