Jazz Age

fighting for years to gain respect and equality. World War I had ended two years prior, this was the time for a change. Women in the roaring twenties rejected all aspects of the Victorian age and were the driving force for the gain of women’s rights and modernization. The 1920’s were an indication the Victorian age was over. “Unemployment was down, from 4,270,000 in 1921 to a little over two million in 1927. The general level of wages for workers rose” (Zinn 382). New innovations were being…

Jazz Age Writing: The Lost Generation Following the destruction of the Great War, those that fought had a fallout with common morals, and values that modern society held dear. They stressed the importance of living large, working minimally, and drinking often. Moreover, the Lost Generation rejected he ideals of organized religion - feeling that they had been abandoned on the battlefields, and seeing the total destruction and atrocious actions that man can sling upon each other. Hemingway,…

The Jazz Age: F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is arguably Fitzgerald’s greatest work and has been labeled as one of the most influential and iconic pieces of 20th century American literature. The novel is a reflection of Fitzgerald’s life during the 1920s (otherwise known as the Jazz Age; coined by Fitzgerald himself). The Great Gatsby was seen as controversial during the time of its publication due to its use of “language and sexual…

F. Scott Fitzgerald produced Tender is the Night as a depiction of the post-World War I era influenced by the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, and alcohol. The novel primarily focuses on two individuals, Dick and Nicole Diver, who live an extravagant lifestyle together filled with poise, travel, and superficial happiness during the peak of the Roaring Twenties. As the novel progresses, Dick starts to transition from the man everyone wants to be around to a man who doesn 't bring happiness anymore…

Pole sitting, sitting atop a flagpole, was one of the most popular fads during the twenties. “The most famous Jazz Age flagpole sitter was Alvin ‘Shipwreck’ Kelly, a professional stuntman who ignited this national craze in 1924 when he spent thirteen hours and thirteen minutes atop a flagpole to attract crowds to a Hollywood theater” (Cement 210). Ice sitting was…

Moral value has been replaced by materialism in “The Great Gatsby” In the 1920s, the “Jazz age” or “the Roaring Twenties” is a period after World War I where American society went to a radical change and social reform, and American situated as the most powerful nation of the world. The economic was growing very fast, and the manufacturing were working in full of capacity. The industrialization and the economic prosperity influenced people’s lives: individuals, especially the upper class who has…

There was a time in history called the Jazz Age, which took place during the “Roaring Twenties”. This novel’s setting is based in the time era of the Jazz Age and the “Roaring Twenties”. The Jazz Age was a time period in the 1920’s where new music and dances became popular in the United States and even Britain. Everyone started being more rebellious by going to more parties, and always drinking and having a good time. The “Roaring Twenties” are when more people decided to live in cities instead…

Although an infamous alcoholic and mental health victim, F. Scott Fitzgerald is debatably one of the most influential American novelists of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald was born September 24 of 1896, as the third child of five. He began his primary college experience at Princeton, and wrote for the college newspaper there. His education did not last long, though, as he dropped out, due to him flunking all of his classes. Instead, he chose to join the army. After he returned, he met a girl named…

One of which was J.D. Salinger. New to writing Salinger did not know where to go, so he decided to start by reading some of the greats. Fitzgerald and Hemingway were his favorites. “As he developed as a writer Salinger came to see himself as following in Fitzgerald’s footsteps” (Gabriel). Salinger was not the only writer to notice this, many other authors aspired to be like Fitzgerald because he left such a legacy in literature. Although Fitzgerald never met Salinger, his guidance can be found…

The 1920’s was given the nickname “The Roaring Twenties” for several reasons: this decade was a turning point in entertainment, economics, women’s rights, and other subcategories of American culture. Many of these changes were positive, but financially, Americans began spending money they did not have, as credit was introduced. The Twenties offered new freedoms that many took great advantage of, but with that freedom came responsibility. Like the old saying states, Americans were give a yard and…