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Participating in WW1
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The 1920's was largely dominated by silent movies but saw the introduction of synchronized sound.
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1920 4,000,000
1924 6,000,000
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Consumerism: They go to the Plaza Hotel just to spend the afternoon and they buy expensive champagne. They just do whatever they feel like, as when Tom buys the dog for Myrtle.
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"I think we talked about the Nordic race. Yes, I'm sure we did. It sort of crept up on us and the first thing you know -" (Tom) page 26, line 8-9-10:
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The Roaring Twenties was a time of wealth and excess, so it's not that strange that the Great Gatsby lives in abundance.The crash of Wall Street was a sign of the fact that the good times had to end, all the superficiality had to end.
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The end of WW1: the world had been bombed and destroyed to a much bigger extend than expected. Therefore people didn't know whether the world would stand tomorrow or not. That is why they party like animals with no inhibitions, as at Gatsby's place, to make the most of life. And the thing that made this possible was the economical abundance!
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The crash of Wall Street is also called "Black Tuesday". It occurred in October 1929 and lead to a new wave of American protectionism.
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In the Great Gatsby the main character live in wealth, in the decadent upper-class society, but the commonfolk sees none of it. acutely they were still paying of the price of war: the loss of manpower and resources, it is sensed during the novel, not in the environment that is described, but where it is not: inside New York City, in the countryside as well as the "Vally of Ashes"-which gives a much better description of the economical situation that east and west egg,
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In the Great Gatsby the main character live in wealth, in the decadent upper-class society, but the commonfolk sees none of it. acutely they were still paying of the price of war: the loss of manpower and resources, it is sensed during the novel, not in the environment that is described, but where it is not: inside New York City, in the countryside as well as the "Vally of Ashes"-which gives a much better description of the economical situation that east and west egg, But luckily, USA moved smar
