Flappers In The 1920s

The 1920s were an age of dramatic political, economic and social 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 did not have to worry about struggling with money. People had to rely on physical labor in the farm life but that changed when everyone started to move to the urban city with no physical labor. Everyone was focused on the progress that they made with the economy and did not pay attention to the problems that were going on in the world. People started to become more interested in how to make money fast and they wanted to be wealthy. People
In reality, most young women in the 1920s did none of these things (though many did adopt a fashionable flapper wardrobe), but even those women who were not flappers gained some unprecedented freedoms.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald both participated in, and wrote books about, the Jazz Age, its morality and the decadence of the era. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, who was called F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on September 24,1896. He was an American writer of fiction whose work spanned the years between World Wars I and II. F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre in New York on April 3, 1920. They had a daughter named Frances Scott Fitzgerald. They called her Scottie. Fitzgerald is recognized by the public and literary critics alike as one of the most important writers of his time, especially for helping to create the image of the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age spanned the years of 1920-1929. In the 1920’s Jazz gained its popularity. The two most important recording centers were located in Chicago and New York. But the rest of the country was interested in the dances that went along with the Jazz