Great Gatsby Analysis
"The beauty and splendor of Gatsby's parties masked the innate corruption within the heart of the Roaring Twenties. Jazz-Age society was a bankrupt world, devoid of morality, and plagued by a crisis of character." "....I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the next thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." The quote means to me that it is a man dominated world, and there is little hope against it. The world appears to be filled with people not having decent values, nor honest actions to allow prosperity. In the 1920s, the Great War leaving its scars on Europe, America, and as always, the people. No matter the time period, or the location for that matter will change people, much less their nature can be changed. My points lie with the truth that the Jazz Age, and I believe in that statement above from the support of the Flappers, the Stock Market crash, the music, the Gangsters, and the Prohibition. The stock market fell in 1929, another proof that the world was bankrupt- and no way to restore itself until the next World War. Naturally, the time period full with lack of money, and corruption. Music, the Jazz age, full of low, deep tones together to form that kind of music. Music will always be a reflection of the times, even today, fast, but not much meaning. The flappers, the women that changed the image set from previous times, striving to be independent in their own ways. They stripped old traditions from society, breaking down walls. The Prohibition, the act that outlawed alcohol, yet the people rebelled against it; many times going outside the law to get it. The extremes of people trying to get what they want, within the law or not. That's where the gangsters come in, ruling the streets without any real control to stop them. That decade ended with the depression, it was long overdue. The economy ended the roaring 20s, to bring an another era that changed the course of American history. The characters