The 1920s in America were a decade of great social change. From fashion to politics, forces clashed to produce a very ^Roaring^ decade. Jazz sounds dominated the music industry. It was the age of prohibition, the age of prosperity, and the age of downfall. It was the age of everything, and this can be witnessed through the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. The Roaring Twenties help create Gatsby's character. Gatsby's participation in …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…used by practically everyone around him. Daisy and Tom, the partygoers, pretty well everyone but Nick. It goes to show that wealth can lead to corruption in the human heart and soul. Fitzgerald shows how this affluent society had a hollow core of pretense and emptiness, and how many of the wealthy were cruel and heartless. This decade began with an uproar and ended with an uproar, and truly earned the name ^The Roaring Twenties.^