the great gatsby

The 1920s are the decade in American history known as the “roaring twenties.” Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is a reflection of life in the 1920s. Big parties, prominence, new fashion trends, and the large amounts of alcohol are all part of the life style in the “roaring twenties.”

The big parties in the book The Great Gatsby reflect life in America during the 1920s. Gatsby displays his great fortune by throwing grand parties. From next door, Nick Carraway was around to see all of Gatsby’s great summer parties. "There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and women came and went like moths among the whisperings of champagne and the stars…On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city, between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all the trains." (Fitzgerald 43).

Gatsby’s house becomes ...