The Roaring Girl

greatest decades in American history. It was a time of exciting change, filled with increased personal freedom. Items like jazz, movies, the radio, and illegal liquor became very popular during this decade, making it popularly known as the Roaring Twenties. The Roaring Twenties was a time of great political, economic, and social change, and just like every other period in American history women tend to be brushed aside in this era. Thus, most do not know that it was a great time for social and political

Published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald executes the Roaring Twenties through his famous novel, The Great Gatsby. During the 1920’s, the economy was booming, the Jazz Era arrived, and people became spiritually free and wealthy. But on a different approach, crime, prohibition, and the fight for women’s rights were provoking. Depending on background, wealth, and morals, women were challenged to be equally accepted and venture the Roaring Twenties. The main feminine characters; Daisy Buchanan, Jordan

The Roaring Twenties were a time of leisure and parties. The media and events surrounding this time period greatly impacted the carefree, extravagant lifestyle. This era was one of the most dramatic and energetic times in American history. To many, the symbols of the roaring Twenties were F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, due to their tales of the young and the wealthy (Hanson 96). The Roaring Twenties influenced many literary works, throughout the 1920s such as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

While the fight for the equality of women in Canadian society is one that still persists, had it not been for the early 20th century, women would not have the fundamental rights that they do today. Before the outbreak of WW1, Canadian women faced a number of unfortunate realities. Not only were their gender roles strictly bound to domestic services and household work, women were also viewed as men’s property that could not defy the ideas of their husbands, and were denied the right to make political

these problems in society the effect is what we now know as The Roaring Twenties. The main conflict in the Twenties was a result of traditional values v. modern values. For example according to The History of the Flapper, Part 1:Call for Freedom by Emily Spivack, “...the Victorian attitudes toward dress and etiquette created a strict moral climate”(Spivack 1). This strict moral climate was the complete opposite of the flapper girls, who because of the war, worked,showed their legs, their bust, and

The american dream During the 1920s was a lively era for American citizens, with new leisure times and wealth from their previous civil war america was doing good for itself. This was a time where the rich got richer and every poor man was given the opportunity to find financial freedom through hard work. The ideal way of life was to be socially equal and economically worry free. During the success of post WWI the phrase the American dream is to be known as having financial freedom and an equal role

The American dream During the 1920s was a lively era for American citizens, with new leisure times and wealth from their previous civil war America was doing well for itself. This was a time where the rich got richer and every poor man was given the opportunity to find financial freedom through hard work. The ideal way of life was to be socially equal and economically worry free. During the success of post WWI the phrase the American dream is to be known as having financial freedom and an equal role

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a novel of intentional deception and greed, is set during the Prohibition era and roaring twenties where luxury and popularity were the main focus. Gatsby, one of the main characters caught up in this era, was once a poor child, but now is a rich wealthy man who intentionally throws parties in hope that his long-lost lover who is married will come to his parties. Gatsby is motivated by love and greed, which is the decline of the American Dream, teaching readers

Prior to the 1920’s, societal rules governing women’s fashion, decorum and level of participation were restrictive and rigid. Many of the population would compare women to “slaves or “servants” before the Roaring 20’s. In the 1920’s, there was a group of women who were determined to take control over their own lives, these women were known as the “Flappers”. These women got their name as the “Flappers” because they began wearing skirts of all different lengths, getting their hair cut short and engaging

families (America 5). Clothes began to be informal, having skirts up to the knees as opposed to the feet (Williams). Women living in the 1920s developed the idea of a “perfect woman.” Jay Gatsby’s book The Great Gatsby was a great example of how flapper girls popularized the “new woman” for society. Daisy Buchanan was definitely an example of an independent woman in the 1920s (Williams). Jay Gatsby threw parties to attract women like this and their wealth even if they did not know who he was (Fitzgerald)