The tires with the words wages and prices depicts inflation and how the war boom raised the prices and wages too much and too fast. 2) The artist was definitely not in favor of F.D.R's policies because even before the war, they were not solid enough to create a favorable result. The air releasing from the tires while they are trying to pump up the wages and prices shows that Roosevelt's attempts to boost the economy was having little effect and when the war boom hit, he lost total control. 3) The second image is ironic due to the fact that the depiction of American life was glamorous and care free
The Paris of Babylon Revisited is the setting of where Charlie lost everything, it had memories of good times but was now tainted with hardship and regret. Charlie and Helen had been flying high during the economic boom of the 1920s, enjoying the food, drink and company in Paris while at the same time Charlie was battling with a drink problem and Helen was enjoying the company of other men. This lifestyle reflected the mood at the beginning of Babylon Revisited, the description of the Parisian streets as Charlie steps out of the Ritz bar shows an almost underground place “the fire-red, gas-blue, ghost green signs shone smokily through the tranquil rain”(398). There is a feeling of darkness and excitement in the same thought. As people leave their homes to enjoy what Paris has to offer they are all dressed up in their evening wear as they pass the prostitutes on the street (401).
These different social rifts come from a result of greed from the destruction of the American Dream. West Egg represents the “new rich”, where people have made their wealth in a short period of time. West egg has more morals of the two eggs, yet West Egg is still very superficial with their gaudy housing and spending. Nick and Gatsby are both from West Egg, which gives an idea of what “type” of people live in what areas. At the beginning of the book Nick says he lived in West Egg “…the less fashionable of the two…” (10).
In a patronising and condescending letter to the editor G J Wowser egotistically contends that the drink driving age should be changed to twenty-one. G J Wowser is critical of young drivers and aims to portray them as ‘irresponsible and careless’. Wowser positions the reader to think of teenagers as ‘irresponsible’ and incapable of drinking and driving by twenty-one. This can be identified in his description of young people as ‘tearaways’. This portrays Wowser’s bitter view on younger drivers and positions the audience to think all young people are irresponsible and ineligible to be driving on our roads.
After the First World War or “the war to end all wars”, the whole world thrived with prosperity. New inventions and industries that were damaged by the war kicked off and then came the “roaring 20’s”. The 20’s brought great riches and prosperity to many. Some people developed a fortune and new life for themself. However contrary to they’re lavish lifestyle these people who acquired new wealth were seen as unworthy to the wealthy community in America (the “old rich”) and were shunned by the click of wealthy Americans who were born into they’re materialistic lifestyle.
John D. Rockefeller And The Standard Oil Company John Rockefeller was born to a very pious mother and a father of questionable morals and ethics. His legendary career began in America's gilded age, a period of unprecedented change. His unprecedented power and wealth prompted new laws that sought to end an era of dominance by so-called “robber barons”. Although he completely dominated his industry, oil and petroleum refining and products, by all but destroying his competition, he is also one of the greatest philanthropists the world has ever known. John Rockefeller’s 98-year life span began in New York in 1839.
They are described as being dissimilar "in every particular except shape and size"(5). East Egg is the more expensive, more exclusive one of the eggs, and home to Daisy and Tom Buchanan. To live in East Egg you must possess "old money", therefore making it forbidden to people like Gatsby who have built up their fortune themselves. The Buchanan house is a "Georgian Colonial mansion", and "elaborate"(6). The eastern seaboard symbolized by the "East Egg" comes to represent the affluence of the Jazz Age, its residents those who have succeeded in obtaining the wealth and power that the "American Dream" represented.
The story takes place during the 1920’s, an era of “unprecedented prosperity and material success.” (Sparknotes) This era directly followed the end of World War I. After the war, Americans became “extremely disillusioned, as the brutal carnage that they had just faced made the Victorian social morality of early-twentieth-century seem like stuffy, empty hypocrisy.” (Sparknotes) This also created a society of corrupted morals, ripe with “decadence and reckless jubilee”. (Sparknotes) Also contributing to this was the institution of Prohibition, the banning of the manufacture and sale of alcohol. This allowed illegal, underground organizations to arise, profiting from the sale of bootlegged liquor and the people’s desire for alcohol. The people’s newfound abhorrence
He again uses high society families to show changes occurring in society through two other novels, This Side of Paradise and Tender Is the Night. They both take place in the twenties when all everyone was worried about was wealth. Fitzgerald shows this greed in This Side of Paradise when Rosalind won’t marry Amory because he has little money. He also shows in Tender Is the Night how people got away with about anything just because they had money. Fitzgerald looks at the American Dream realistically and sees it can be wonderful yet depressing at the same time.
However, The Great Gatsby seems to be celebrating the energy of those seeking the American dream in the person of the main protagonist; the romantic and wealthy, but vulgar and criminal Jay Gatsby. If Nick Carraway can be considered authorial, then his admiration for Gatsby’s ability to reinvent himself and to be borne along by a romantic passion is a reflection of Fitzgeralds admiration for the strength of the new world. The play, in contrast, shows the excitement and evolution of the American dream, and the decline of the old world, especially because it is set after the end of the second world war, when there was a high level of patriotism amongst Americans. It shows the inevitability of the demise of the old world along with its old traditions, represented by Blanche Dubois, and the rise of the