Roaring Twenties

In many of Fitzgerald’s novels, most of his works illustrate the Jazz Age, which the audience can visualize in the novel, The Great Gatsby. Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald includes many themes that people can relate to themselves as one of the characters. The high social class like Tom and Daisy or the low social class like Nick. Also Gatsby, who went from a low social class to a high social class with his own power. Fitzgerald illustrates a scathing critique of upper class privilege in the…

Throughout the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the division of economic classes is expressed through lavish parties, love, and actions with detrimental results. Jay Gatsby, the self-made man, and Tom and Daisy Buchanan, the born rich, possess unique traits and must follow rules specific to their own upper class. Fitzgerald uses this theme to illustrate how the separation of these upper classes affects their interaction with one another, their distinct rules, and their punishments.…

With all the money, party’s and unnecessary gold items seeing how materialism is shown in The Great Gatsby isn’t really that hard. The over all message of the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is that the “American Dream” isn’t all it seams and money can’t buy everything. Using materialism helped show how dumb it was to think money could buy things like happiness. You can tell how much money effects the people in it, listen to a guest at Gatsby’s party as she tells a little story…

In "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald and " Chicago" directed by Rob Marshall money is consequential to both stories. Money shows the power one can have if they have large amounts of it. In "Chicago" Roxie uses money so she can hire the best lawyer who also made her famous. In "The Great Gatsby" money showed where people were ranked from richest to poorest with Tom being in East Egg (been really rich) whereas Gatsby was from West Egg (newly rich). Power is something a lot of people in…

The 1940’s were a decade of great change in America. In 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor; the first ever attack on U.S. soil, in 1944 American troops landed in Nazi-occupied Europe, and in 1945 the microwave oven was introduced to America. There was another great change taking place, but in the world of jazz music -- a new sound was developing that would alter the genre forever, pioneered by such people as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk. As 1940 was coming to a close, a…

Dream was defined by being becoming rich and famous and having a boat and a mansion and a nice car and a trophy spouse and complaining about minorities (Greer). The Americans of today are much more diverse in beliefs and backgrounds than those in the twenties because of the advancement of minorities. The mixture of cultures, religions, lifestyles, and backgrounds provide unique individuals and creates unique versions of the American Dream. Contemporary Americans may not dream of the classic…

that she can’t be seen with a poor man. “The winning of female suffrage did not mark the end of prejudice and discrim-ination against women in public life” (Perry 36). The social culture and morals of a woman during the 1920’s varied immensely. The Roaring 20s were when the Flappers, “independent and rebellious” (Banner 578) came out to play. Flappers emerged because there was a loss of biblical authority and a general decline in traditional morals in the United States. However, even though…

The sales effort and conspicuous consumption defined the “American Dream” in the 1920s. The sales effort and conspicuous consumption cannot survive about one another. The Great Gatsby shows how the sales effort and conspicuous consumption represent the American Dream. Sales effort is a firm’s “marketing as a whole” (Holleman, "The Sales Effort and Monopoly Capital"). Conspicuous consumption is consuming for prestige. Conspicuous consumption allows the consumer to feel privilege and a higher…

One of the main sustained motifs throughout the entire book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the significance of money and the correlating behaviors of those characters with “old money” as opposed to those with “new money.” The “old money” individuals come out almost completely unscathed at the end of the novel, while the “new money” individuals’ lives are changed forever. Money is examined in the novel through the division between East and West Egg, the attitudes of the “old money”…

In the 1920s or as it was also known, The Roaring 20s, many people were finding ways to make money. Some made money through the stock market or becoming bootleggers, how the person had obtained their wealth affected their relationships with others. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald social class has an effect on relationships. It affects how people treat each other and how they are viewed by one another. In the novel, there are three main types of people that are grouped either old or…