The Great Gatsby Context

1920s America 

The novel is set four years after WW1

• 'Roaring Twenties', the 'Jazz Age'- a term popularised by Fitzgerald
• End of WW1- sense of liberation- flappers, new freedoms for women 
• Growth of the economy 
• The United States became the world's wealthiest country
• Consumerism fueled by…