Jazz Age In The Great Gatsby Essay

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Santia McCraw
Mrs. Linder
English II
19 March 2014

The Impact of the Jazz Age in the Great Gatsby
Life is music and the Jazz Age brought about a time that F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” gave people and the world new meaning and a different outlook on life. Life now fresh and fruitful and the once unobtainable things in life seemed easier to acquire or so it seemed. This gave people great hope after the war times to experience the finer things life had to offer. The Jazz Age was the era when the Great Gatsby’s style and Great Jazz Age Music Roared in the 20’s.
After the post-war time, life in the 1920’s started anew for many. The Industries and economic growth began to prosper; this was the dawning of a new living even a new music was thriving making life a happier time. This was the times when people felt the growth and felt the richness of the world or saw it obtainable. New found pleasures and uncertainties of the 20’s had a part in the most economic boom the country had ever seen. Some people were getting rich and others felt the chance to be rich got better (Britten 23). This New Age in life brought about fun-times, family pleasures and the uncertainties of some. The economic recovery had begun around 1922 and prosperity steadily grew to historic heights. Many chain stores had been around for several decades with no real growth. But in the 1920’s they grew greatly in popularity, as rising incomes brought about an increase in consumer activity (Pietrusza 15)”.
The cultural movement of the Jazz Age that America embraced is often referred to as the Roaring Twenties from which jazz, music, and dance emerged. Therefore, the profound

mainstream use of radio and the evolution of jazz music happened at the time of t...

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...eat successes with radios, silent movies and the talkies. Industries grew in production mainly because people had more spending money that benefitted the economy. The Jazz Ages collaborated effort musically and socially almost made race a blank face. The division in radio of urban and suburban broadcast still could not stop black and white artist from learning from one or another. Then the greatest of disappointments surfaced at the end of a great rich decade of musical genius, styles, and memorable women fashions. October of 1929 is a day that will never be forgotten because that is the day the stock market crashed and the Great Depression hit the world and after the joy of renewing a love interest, enjoying the richness in life, the love of jazz music and an abundance of wealth; Jay Gatsby’s life patterns the stock market and in his death comes to a crashing fall.

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