- Characters of the Gastby movie.
- Gatsby
- Nick Carraway
- Daisy
- Tom Buchanan
The 20´s age
The 1920s
were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more
Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth more than
doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans
into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society.” People from coast to coast
bought the same goods (thanks to nationwide advertising and the spread of chain
stores), listened to the same music, did the same dances and even used the same
slang! Many Americans were uncomfortable with this new, urban, sometimes racy
“mass culture”; in fact, for many–even most–people in the United States, the
1920s brought more conflict than celebration. However, for a small handful of
young people in the nation’s big cities, the 1920s were roaring indeed.