Flapper

The title of of this class, Modern American Families, is an interesting one that can be discussed in various ways. The choice to watch films from several different eras was enjoyable. I elected to write a paper on the films we viewed in class and the themes they brought forth regarding “Modern American Families”. The two themes that I feel were most prevalent and important were courtship and marriage along with domesticity and gender roles. These are general topics, but I will dig deeper into…

Jack Clayton adapted F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby to illustrate the social class and status in the 1920s to his film, The Great Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is a fabulously wealthy young man who lives in a Gothic mansion in West Egg, New York. He is well known for the lavish parties he throws every Saturday night, but he never attends. Nobody knows who he really is, where he comes from, or what he does. Karl Marxist argued “differences in socioeconomic class divide people in ways that are…

If you think about it, men and women aren’t so different. Will we ever come to closure on our similarities? When you look at a man, you notice his physical appearance. If we look beyond physical appearance, both men and women are built the same way. Although some may believe in Man being on top, women can do anything a man can do. Over 1 billion years ago, sex evolved into single-cell organisms. One eukaryotic cell would come in contact with another eukaryotic cell and if that cell responded,…

The United States doubled its wealth between 1920 and 1929. Many things happened during the roaring twenties. The ‘new woman” was very popular during this time. She was called a “flapper”, she was a young woman who did “un ladylike thing”, she would have bobbed hair, smoked, drank and wore short revealing clothes. This woman was more sexually “free” than times before. These women were discriminated against, but during the roaring…

Daisy, a beautiful flapper from the 1920s, living the perfect life of wealth and respect in society, has everything she ever wanted. Always wearing white to show her innocence and purity, she is the trophy wife every man dreams of. Her friendly and flirty personality draws people in, while her high stature in society distances her away from the common people. This is exactly what had happened with the love of her life, Jay Gatsby, when she was younger. He left to war and she was forced to marry…

The Roaring Twenties in the Great Gatsby By: Isaiah Aguilera The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and profound cultural conflicts. For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, the upsurge of mass entertainment, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented liberation from the restrictions of the United States’s Victorian past. Sexual mores, gender roles, hairstyles, and dressing all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many…

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past (Fitzgerald 189).” This quote stated in the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald sums of the life of people in the 1920’s. Although there were many new ideas and opportunities in the decade, there were setbacks as well so people needed to keep ‘fighting the current’ in order to succeed. Along with that, baseball created a huge impact on society and raised many new thoughts and ideas. After doing…

The nineteen-twenties saw a great change in American society. With the recent upturn in the American economy, the United States became a “consumer society”. (History.com) This is the world of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious man who rose to great wealth in mysterious ways. Gatsby threw lavish parties, characteristic of the time, and lived a life of luxury. Through the novel The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald portrays his view of the era he lived in; the roaring twenties. Using a new historicism approach…

were the businessmen. Behind closed doors in the extravagant parties thrown were the bootleggers, gangsters, stockmen; all there to make a profit before the unbeknownst Great Depression came. Alongside the antics of the men were the new women; the flappers, who had short hair, smoked, drank and most importantly, were beginning to have rights. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 tragic love story, ‘The Great Gatsby’ opens a time portal that takes you back to the 1920’s and can make you nostalgic for a…

considered “taboo”. The book is set in the 1920s which is the time period of change. Prohibition started in the Roaring twenties; prohibition is defined as the outlaw of alcohol. There were many other changes at this period, for example there were flappers, which were women who no longer followed the rules. There was also an increase in lawbreakers and many illegal activities at this time. It was the phase when people were carefree and wanted independence after the war. This is the textbook…