The Radio and Jazz Music
The 1920 also known as the Jazz Age, year that began with the end of World War I, is the time of economic prosperity, cultural changing and a roaring of society. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American novel, The Great Gatsby, accurately portrays 1920s, the century during his lifetime. He illustrates the upper class crust through flashy cars, the greed of women, parties that go on for a day, and fake friends, who left you behind or known you because of benefits. The valley of ashes portrays on the desperate poverty that the normal people faced in the 1920s, along with the pursuit of happiness, money, and love becomes distorted and materialized, which is constantly demonstrate using the character in Fitzgerald's novel. In New York, the Jazz Age was a time hardly everyone worried about the money or their American dream in the Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s parties “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 39) are typical for this time period. A lot of people come and go very often. Their hair is “shorn in strange new ways” (Fitzgerald 36) and the women’s neck are “shawls beyond the dream of Castile” (Fitzgerald 36). They wear “golden and silver slippers” (Fitzgerald 109) and the best example is Gatsby “in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tied” (Fitzgerald 65) when he first meet with Daisy. This show how women and people dress during the Roaring Twenties. Women's fashions of the 1920s are a large part of the Jazz Age identity, known as “flapper” fashions. Jazz music was the propelling force of this new culture. By 1925, The wild and primitive sound of jazz music filled the streets of every major city in the United States. The popularity of jazz music also using through Gatsby’s parties. Gatsby’s guests are entertained by cocktail music played by a typical jazz orchestra consisting of saxophones, trombones, and others. During 1920s, America experienced an economic gloom through which the rich become richer. Gatsby throws very extravagant parties as which “his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city” (Fitzgerald 39), the parties that the wealthy would have. One can agree that Fitzgerald correctly portrays the 1920s in his novel through corruption, greed, lack of spirituality, the constant pursuit of happiness and the attainment of wealth.
American Heroes Sport
Jordan Barker, she was a golf professional in that time period. From quote Tom and Miss Baker sat at the end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the " ‘Saturday Evening Post’—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune. The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms. “(Fitzgerald 121) and Instead of marrying, Jordan plays golf professionally and dates around, to the point Tom comments that her family “shouldn’t let her run around the country in this way” (Fitzgerald 134)from those quotes Jordan was an professional golf player because characters described her that play golf professionally and also she has slender arms from playing golf. Refer to American Heroes sports, “Golf” was a part of famous sport in particular For women rights to playing sport is less than men. Jordan was hero for leading women to succeed in their career.
Tom Buchanan. He was an football player from quotes among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”( Fitzgerald 16 )
American football is popular sport since 1920s until nowadays.In 1920s, American football was popular that people usually play even in collage. Refer to Tom Buchanan, he played for Yale University.
The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance
“ ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.Have you read ‘The rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?’
‘Why, no,’ I answered, rather surprised by his tone.
‘Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff;it’s been proved’. ’”
“ ‘This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us, who are dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.’ ”
“Women run around too much these days to suit me.They meet all kinds of crazy fish.”(Fitzgerald 103)
The quote represent the clashed of New culture women vs. old-fashioned women. Tom said his wife run around too much, all women have their right to do whatever they want they do not need permission from their husband.
Tom Buchanan from the Great Gatsby read the about racists book which he represented the Ku Klux Klan of 1920s. The purposed of Ku Klux Klan was to destroy other races and dominant the Caucasian races.Ku Klux Klan revived within 1920s due to Colonel William J.simmons. It has 1924-4 million members.They against any group that against that seem un-American and stole the cross to be the symbol of their own. The Klan’s revival was to burned the cross. Ku Klux Klan affected Red scare which encourage the nativism, anti-immigrant. The great migration is reason of Ku Klux Klan. The great migration is in 1916 - 1970. African American receive a little economic opportunity to replace soldier jobs during World War 1.Black population grew in larger percentage in the urban such as New York increased 66%, Chicago increased148%, Philadelphia increased 500%, Detroit increased 600%.The Great Migration made increased of jazz and Ku Klux klan. 50,000 American moved to the North regard to the Push and pull factor.
Push factor were Jim Crow laws, Lynching, the sharecrop of the farmer. Pull factor were Jobs, Urban league, Industrialization. In 1948, racism were widespread and it is illegal to refuse to trade with African American. The summer of 1919 began the greatest period of interracial strife in U.S. history, including a disturbing wave of race riots. The most serious took place in Chicago in July 1919; it lasted 13 days and left 38 people dead, 537 injured and 1,000 black families without homes. Impact of Great Migration were inspiration to make the movement of the era,Harlem Renaissance, 25% of African American live in the South, African American more involvement to political activity, African American build their own city inside the big city.
Both of the quote represent The cultural civil war where as the conflict between two idea of society clashed each other such as Modern women vs. conservative women, Black vs. White or immigration vs. Native.
The 1920 also known as the Jazz Age, year that began with the end of World War I, is the time of economic prosperity, cultural changing and a roaring of society. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American novel, The Great Gatsby, accurately portrays 1920s, the century during his lifetime. He illustrates the upper class crust through flashy cars, the greed of women, parties that go on for a day, and fake friends, who left you behind or known you because of benefits. The valley of ashes portrays on the desperate poverty that the normal people faced in the 1920s, along with the pursuit of happiness, money, and love becomes distorted and materialized, which is constantly demonstrate using the character in Fitzgerald's novel. In New York, the Jazz Age was a time hardly everyone worried about the money or their American dream in the Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s parties “In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars” (Fitzgerald 39) are typical for this time period. A lot of people come and go very often. Their hair is “shorn in strange new ways” (Fitzgerald 36) and the women’s neck are “shawls beyond the dream of Castile” (Fitzgerald 36). They wear “golden and silver slippers” (Fitzgerald 109) and the best example is Gatsby “in a white flannel suit, silver shirt, and gold-colored tied” (Fitzgerald 65) when he first meet with Daisy. This show how women and people dress during the Roaring Twenties. Women's fashions of the 1920s are a large part of the Jazz Age identity, known as “flapper” fashions. Jazz music was the propelling force of this new culture. By 1925, The wild and primitive sound of jazz music filled the streets of every major city in the United States. The popularity of jazz music also using through Gatsby’s parties. Gatsby’s guests are entertained by cocktail music played by a typical jazz orchestra consisting of saxophones, trombones, and others. During 1920s, America experienced an economic gloom through which the rich become richer. Gatsby throws very extravagant parties as which “his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city” (Fitzgerald 39), the parties that the wealthy would have. One can agree that Fitzgerald correctly portrays the 1920s in his novel through corruption, greed, lack of spirituality, the constant pursuit of happiness and the attainment of wealth.
American Heroes Sport
Jordan Barker, she was a golf professional in that time period. From quote Tom and Miss Baker sat at the end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the " ‘Saturday Evening Post’—the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune. The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms. “(Fitzgerald 121) and Instead of marrying, Jordan plays golf professionally and dates around, to the point Tom comments that her family “shouldn’t let her run around the country in this way” (Fitzgerald 134)from those quotes Jordan was an professional golf player because characters described her that play golf professionally and also she has slender arms from playing golf. Refer to American Heroes sports, “Golf” was a part of famous sport in particular For women rights to playing sport is less than men. Jordan was hero for leading women to succeed in their career.
Tom Buchanan. He was an football player from quotes among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven—a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”( Fitzgerald 16 )
American football is popular sport since 1920s until nowadays.In 1920s, American football was popular that people usually play even in collage. Refer to Tom Buchanan, he played for Yale University.
The Great Migration and Harlem Renaissance
“ ‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.Have you read ‘The rise of the Colored Empires’ by this man Goddard?’
‘Why, no,’ I answered, rather surprised by his tone.
‘Well, it’s a fine book, and everybody ought to read it. The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be--will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff;it’s been proved’. ’”
“ ‘This fellow has worked out the whole thing. It’s up to us, who are dominant race, to watch out or these other races will have control of things.’ ”
“Women run around too much these days to suit me.They meet all kinds of crazy fish.”(Fitzgerald 103)
The quote represent the clashed of New culture women vs. old-fashioned women. Tom said his wife run around too much, all women have their right to do whatever they want they do not need permission from their husband.
Tom Buchanan from the Great Gatsby read the about racists book which he represented the Ku Klux Klan of 1920s. The purposed of Ku Klux Klan was to destroy other races and dominant the Caucasian races.Ku Klux Klan revived within 1920s due to Colonel William J.simmons. It has 1924-4 million members.They against any group that against that seem un-American and stole the cross to be the symbol of their own. The Klan’s revival was to burned the cross. Ku Klux Klan affected Red scare which encourage the nativism, anti-immigrant. The great migration is reason of Ku Klux Klan. The great migration is in 1916 - 1970. African American receive a little economic opportunity to replace soldier jobs during World War 1.Black population grew in larger percentage in the urban such as New York increased 66%, Chicago increased148%, Philadelphia increased 500%, Detroit increased 600%.The Great Migration made increased of jazz and Ku Klux klan. 50,000 American moved to the North regard to the Push and pull factor.
Push factor were Jim Crow laws, Lynching, the sharecrop of the farmer. Pull factor were Jobs, Urban league, Industrialization. In 1948, racism were widespread and it is illegal to refuse to trade with African American. The summer of 1919 began the greatest period of interracial strife in U.S. history, including a disturbing wave of race riots. The most serious took place in Chicago in July 1919; it lasted 13 days and left 38 people dead, 537 injured and 1,000 black families without homes. Impact of Great Migration were inspiration to make the movement of the era,Harlem Renaissance, 25% of African American live in the South, African American more involvement to political activity, African American build their own city inside the big city.
Both of the quote represent The cultural civil war where as the conflict between two idea of society clashed each other such as Modern women vs. conservative women, Black vs. White or immigration vs. Native.