1. Prosperity Dduring the Roaring Twenties
The two decades between World War I and World War II were a golden age of American fiction. Fitzgerald, as a member of "the lost generation", publish his The Great Gatsby in 1925 and confirmed his status as a chronicler and poet laureate in the jazz age. ... So he could vividly depict the mysterious and desirous wealth of Gatsby and unfolded before our eyes a blazing picture of the jazz age. ... From the understanding and annotation of the whole age, he saw the fall of American values: American Dream. 1. ...
The decade immediately following The Great War, coined "The Roaring Twenties" for its period of vivacity and decadence, marked one of this country's most indulging times in its young history. Despite all the superficial glory, organized crime was detrimental to the purity of America; a catalyst for ...
Leiss, Kline, Jhally and Botterill state that "this was advertising's golden age, not merely because advertisers had grasped its almost unlimited transformational capabilities, but because society as a whole almost completely agreed with its key premise, that the road to happiness was paved with more goods and services". ...