The Great Gatsby :: F. Scott Fitzgerald

The with child(p) Gatsby and the 1920sAlcohol was banned in e actually state, the Womans compensate Movement flooded cities and The swell Gatsby was published. What do all of these things baffle in common? All of these events made up one decade, the 1920s. none of these radical events were present during World struggle 1 life was very different and changed in a short amount of time. The 20s were a time of free will and revolution. Great examples of these events are told in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which will help to view the differences in the tender changes before and after the war.Law enforcement was not stable during the 1920s. In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby were on the way to meet Jays business partner, Wolfshiem, when they were stop by a police officer. All right, old sport, called Gatsby. We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the mans eyes.Right you are, agreed the policeman, tipping his cap. Know you ne xt time, Mr. Gatsby. Excuse ME (Fitzgerald 46) Before World War 1, Jay would have gotten a ticket. Instead of the policeman giving Jay a ticket, Jay flashed him a white piece of paper and the police officer apologized for interrupting Jay Gatsby and left. This is an example of stooping cops in the 1920s. The police officer did not fulfill his duties, but kind of let Jay go because Jay had some sort of authority over the officer. jurisprudence officers often abused their authority in the 1920s. People were often standard by cops that had a different opinion than others. Police officers broke the uprightness by going to illegal speakeasies and drinking because according to the 21st and eighteenth amendments, alcohol was prohibited during this time. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a main character. Jay is a man with a lot of money and no one knows how he came to be so rich. Jay claims to have gotten a large inheritance, but nigh people believe he was a moonshiner. Hes a bootl egger, said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and flowers (Fitzgerald 41). A bootlegger is a person who smuggled alcohol around the United States during prohibition. This is how umpteen people made money during this time. Bootlegging and organized crime went hand-in-hand in the 1920s. Finest specimens of human molars, he informed me (Fitzgerald 48).