Flappers

Flappers were women who ditched the conservative looks of the normal society that they were told what was appropriate look for women, and anything else was anything but acceptable to most of America. These women were bold, they cut their hair to sh older length, almost like men's to show a sign of equality, wore dresses that showed their legs, smoked, drank, and went out to extravagant parties.

The society that is in the East and West Egg , are related to flappers, because that is who the women were. Jordan Baker was described as being an incredible woman that drew men to her, she drank and smoked at these raivishing parties.



Many women became flappers all over the country. They liked the idea of being able to just let loose and not have to be so proper and stay home, have no say for their opinion. But with the war ending, women had a chance to feel what freedom and holding their own felt like. And they weren't going back. Flappers not only had fun, dressed up and rejected the norm, it was a symbol of women doing what they wanted and having fed up with less opportunities and discrimination. It what a movement of change for women.

Prohibition

Prohibition relates to The Great Gatsby in the respect that smuggling illegal booze was the way that Jay Gatsby was able to make and sustain his fortune. Introduced Gatsby to the lucrative bootlegging industry.

A poor runaway from the Midwest, Gatsby has worked his way up to a sprawling Long Island mansion, where he gives boozy, jazz-filled parties for New York high society and drunken flappers.in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby", Prohibition is portrayed as historically accurate because alcohol was easily obtainable, socially acceptable and because the government did not heavily enforce Prohibition laws.

It is also important to remember that the novel took place during a time of the prohibition in America. It is a common known fact that a number of non-caring and irresolute individuals grew rich off of contraband alcohol.

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Unrequited Love

Sadly we see this happen in too many relationships, unrequited love, being in love with someone but they don't love you. Have you ever known anyone who has been in this situation, or maybe you personally have been? Well unrequited love is not an easy thing to deal with. Love is such a strong emotion, it does not come easy or quick nor does it leave just as fast.

The Great Gatsby has some examples; Tom and Daisy, Daisy is a sad and lonely woman, her husband Tom does not love her and has a mistress, which Daisy knows about but does nothing. Then we meet the mistress, Myrtle, who is also married, she neither loves her husband. He is a polite man and has no clue of his wife's affair, he does not have a lot of money and Mrtyle is sick of him. And remind you the time era of this book is the 1920's, women rarely ever cheated. The 20's were supposed to have a society of clean cut Americans.

This shows that no matter how long ago it was, unfortunately we have been experiencing unrequited love for more than enough times. Why is it that our emotions so real and strong? Love can be the most fantastic or painful thing in life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on September 24,1896. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both were Catholics. He eventually settled in New York City.

In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama. There he fell in love with a celebrated belle, eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. The romance intensified Fitzgerald’s hopes for the success of his novel, but after revision it was rejected by Scribners for a second time.

Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 . He wrote The Great Gatsby during the summer and fall in Valescure near St. Raphael. The Great Gatsby was dedicated to his wife.

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