The time and setting in great Gatsby was during the 1920s.The 1920s was the time for youth. Almost everyone was in fashion and anything that was hip was from the younger generation. "It was a time of conservatism, it was a time of great social change." (1)Most people loved to dance and a new form of music was born that was called jazz."The Jazz Age came about with artist like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington."(1) With the rise in music and the new culture the radio and T.V also came along with the ages. Everyone was ready for change and ready to risk what they had for a better opportunity in life and poverty. With this increase of risk and spending also come a down fall.

The 1920s was also the time of the great depression. “On October 24, 1929, later to be known as Black Thursday, the stock market began its downhill drop.”(2) By the next Tuesday the stock market had crashed and was the beginning of the great depression. With the great depression was the end of the party and better years of the 1920s. Many people lost their jobs and homes that also led to many homicides and death in the later years of the 1920s. This would mark the end of the 1920s or roaring twenties.

1.http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/
2.http://www.kyrene.org/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm