1920's

The 1920s era went by such names as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance, and the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. America had survived a deadly worldwide war. The new decade would be a time of change for everyone. At the beginning of the 1920s, the United States was converting from a war time to peacetime economy.when the weapons from the war were no longer needed, there was a temporary stall in the economy.In this decade, America became the richest nation on Earth and a culture of consumerism was born. It was the time of the $5 workday, good worker pay for those days. People spent money for better roads, tourism, and holiday resorts. Real estate booms, most notably in Florida, sent land prices soaring. Technology played a vital part in delivering the economic and cultural good times that most of America enjoyed during the 1920s.
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Henry Ford blazed the way with his Model T; he sold more 15 million of them by 1927. Ford's assembly line means of production was the key. The automobile's popularity, and construction of roads and highways public funds into the economy brought tremendous economic prosperity.The radio found its way into virtually every home in America. Following the first public station, KDKA, in Pittsburgh, thousands more went on the air across the country. Radio became a national pastime; many listeners would gather in their living rooms to tune in sports, concerts.The number of people living and working on farms reached its peak at 32,530,000 back in 1916. The majority of the farms were relatively small operations. New technology in the 1920s caused farm work to be more easier.
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Science and medicine and health advanced remarkably during the same period. Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921. Diphtheria became better controlled in 1923 by newly introduced immunization. With the Flapper's focus on dieting and her popular look came a significant change in the dietary habits of Americans as a whole less fat and meat, and more fruits and vegetables. The discovery of vitamins and their effects also occurred around the same time. People became more careful in what they ate.During the 20's mens fashions became less stuffy and they tried to look more youthful but womens fashions changed much more drastically with women dressing in a way they felt comfortable with not to accentuate the feminine attributes but as a statement of who they were.
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Dan Cody

Jay Gatsby's real name was James Gatz. The moment when he decided to change it, when he was 17, was also the moment that began his career. Dan Cody had a very big part in this movement of Gatsby's life. James had been walking along the beach in a torn green jersey.Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor over Lake Superior. When Gatsby saw this, he borrowed a rowboat, and pulled out to where Cody was on the water and warned him that the "wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour."Over the next few years Gatsby was steward, mate, skipper, secretary and even jailer for Dan Cody, and was very trusted by him.http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/section6.rhtml


Cody was a heavy drinker, and one of Gatsby’s jobs was to look after him during his drunken times. This gave Gatsby a healthy respect for the dangers of alcohol and convinced him not to drink himself. When Cody died, he left Gatsby $25,000, but Cody’s mistress prevented him from claiming his inheritance. Gatsby then dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful man."Cody found Gatsby to be smart and ambitious man.During the time he travelled with Cody, Gatsby experienced a glamorous life far removed from his North Dakota upbringing.He also attended parties with the wealthy.http://www.gradesaver.com/the-great-gatsby/study-guide/section6/

Dan Cody was an enormously wealthy old man, a millionaire many times over, who had earned his fortune mining silver.He helped gatsby learn and gave him shelter when he didnt have anyone to go too.He mentored Gatsby when he was a young man and gave him a taste of elite society. Though he left Gatsby a sum of money after his death, it was later seized by his ex-wife.Serving as a mentor in Jay's youth, Cody was a millionaire yachtsman whose inheritance was invalidated by a woman, Ella Kaye, and Gatsby was left only with the education this man had given him about how to live. A picture of Cody hangs on the wall in his mansion. http://www.novelguide.com/thegreatgatsby/characterprofiles.html

The Women of Gatsby

The author of Gatsby Fitzgerald openly shows his opinion that women generally have low moral qualities, and demonstrates this by the actions and speech illustrated by the people in this book: Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson.Each had their own flaws and were branded under the category of a typical woman with low moral virtues. Fitzgerald made sure to bring out childish actions from women as often as possible, and distinctively emphasized them when a male was also a part of a wrongdoing. During the story, men were portrayed as corrupt and fraudulent, but women were always one worse, and he took advantage of every opportunity he could to exploit them.He wanted to show that women were as bad as men.

The story is about love and deception between three girls. In the novel, Daisy loves Gatsby but stays with her husband Tom , because of the security he can offer her.Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband and didn't treat her well. Jordan Baker is a woman who lies and is also very independent in life and would prefer not to have a man in her life.Women have many reasons for loving and staying with the different men in their lives.Daisy abuses the men in her life in an emotional way needs security more then love with some man.Myrtle mistreats her husband all the time,and loves money, and Jordan lies to men. All three of these girls were motivated by the same thing, money.http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1920.htm

Jay Gatsby is a young man desperate to win the acceptance of the old money, elitist class, and in particular the love of his former partner, Daisy.Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. When he meets her for the first time in five years he is pale as a ghost and cant move.As the story get unfolded Fitzgerald portrays women in a negative fashion.Fitzgerald uses Daisy, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson to illustrate the disapproving qualities of carelessness selfishness and dishonesty.He not only depicts women as corrupt, but also as continually dependent on men. Fitzgerald illustration of women as foolish, careless and dishonest regardless of their individual and varying backgrounds.

Jealousy

People all over the world are jealous because they want stuff that other people have and they get mad. People that dont have everything are usually the ones that are jealous. Poor people get jealous because they dont have stuff they want. Most rich people arent jealous because they have all the stuff or they can get anything they want.There are diffrent types of jealousy there is when someone has something that you want.There is also when you are jealous of someones girl friend.There is also friend jealousy losing a friend to an interloper.There also is work jealousy when someone gets a rasie and you dont.


Friend Jealousy is when your friend got a new car and you like it and you want a new car but you cant get one.This kind of jealousy sometimes make bestfriends stopp being friends because there jealous of there what there friend got.Kids all around get jealouse of what there friends got.Also when one of your friends has a hot girlfriend and your jealouse of him cause your sexyier then him and you cant figure out why shes going out with him.Thats when they usually stop hanging out with you because they hang out with there girlfriend instead of you.


When one of your friends get jealous they usually try harder to be a better friend.Because they dont want to lose you but since you been getting everything they get better friends and you forget about him.And that usually leads to him leaving you or you get sick of him cause hes not cool enought to hangout with. Another jealousy is at work when you have been working your but off and the new guy gets a raise and you been there longer.You get mad and become jealousy and mad at the same time.Jealousy is all around the world some people just dont tell you there jealouse.

F.Scott Fitzgerald

The 1920s also know as the jazz age times were also wild and Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was its king. Although he lived a very luxurious lifestyles of anyone during the decade he was know for his prominent works of literature. His literature is still popular to this day and has been in the American classics of literature.Fitzgerald was born on September 29, 1896in St Paul.He was given his name to honor his ancestor who wrote the National Anthem. In school Fitzgerald wrote for the newspaper.


In school he met Father Sigourney Fay who encouraged him to continue his passion for writing. After he entered Princeton University, where he mastered on his writing abilities by writing for the school media.But he forgot about his studies and was put on academic probation. In 1917, Fitzgerald joined the army to fight in the World War that was going on. He was assigned to Camp Sheridan in Alabama. There he meet Zelda Sayre and fell in love with her and ask her to marry him.But she turned him down cause he wasn't successful enough.

Fitzgerald then went back to St. Paul to begin work on his novel: This Side of Paradise. His novel got published in 1920 and it was a success. He had gained the kind of success and the money that he had always wanted for so long. Not long after that him and Zelda Sayre got married. Luxurious parties were common in the Fitzgerald s' home especially among his wife Zelda, which triggered many domestic rows. He was tired of it and moved to France in 1924 to work on the Novel The Great When the novel was being published in 1925 i was a disaster but theater and movie deals brought in more income. Fitzgerald had secured a place in literary history as one of the most prominent writers ever.

Prohibition

Prohibition in the 1920s was a period in which the government banned the production and manufacturing and use of alcohol.The Eighteenth Amendment said that to nationalized ban on liquor from 1919 to 1933. The Amendment was approved by 36 states was signed on January 16, 1919. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union said that it would help women and children at home because alcohol is why there is beatings at home. Christian women believed that if they got ride of alcohol at the home there husbands would be nicer.That would actually makes us more angrier.

The roaring twenties was a total disregard of law and order.With gangster running the streets it was time for speakeasies. In the 1920 not only gangsters and mobsters broke the laws the common American had total disregard of the laws. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, people wanted to have a law for prohibition. After many decades an organization took there time and looked at crime rates because alcohol. Prohibition was suppose to get ride of the crime rate but instead it brought gangster and gangs to the streets that did more killing then the alcohol.

The dream of bringing down the alcoholism and crime rate by the temperance movement failed to materialized. People became weary about the prohibition laws and they started joining groups that were Anti-Prohibition movement. Prohibition made crime rates and murder worse because people wear killing for it. When the stock market crashed in 1929 the only way the government could get jobs going again and money into the government was to unbanned alcohol.

Flappers

Being a flapper in the 1920s wasn't about fashioned it was about rebbellion. Flappers didn't like how life was so they started to dance to jazz music and smoke. They also wore makeup and short dresses. There look became fashionable because of the lifestyle they lived in the 1920s. There short hair, that was pure rebellion against the older generation’s long hair. Flappers also danced in bars and on the streets drank and just did everything different then there parents did.Flappers also went to speakeasy. They also started to hangout with the gangsters.

How flappers became is because women were starting to be able to vote and now how jobs like other men and they weren't stuck at home cleaning all day so when they went out they wonted to have fun and dance and drink and smoke. Flappers were bold confident and very sexy. Women tried diets all around to lose weight because flappers clothes were very small. The older generation was very mad at there girls and people that did this.

One of a famous flapper was Clara Bow. She was sometimes called the "IT Girl".Many women liked Bow's look by drawing a bow shape on their lips, also putting black around there their eyes, and curling their hair onto their cheeks. Many people looked up to Clara Bow and thought of her as there idol. Despite the Flapper style many people felt threaten by it.Many states began to charge girls for wearing there skirts to high. Also many women got fired it they put there hair up. When the stock market crashed the flapper era was over girls started to wear there dresses lower and pretty much everything was back to normal.