While inhibited, the Prohibition caused crime to pause for a short amount of time. Until it later turned into a larger issue when crime increased because of the tight control on alcohol. The increase in crime costed the government a large amount of money. Fitzgerald gives a realistic glimpse into the lifestyles of the rich during Prohibition and their access to illegal liquor.
Alcohol is frequently associated with old money. Gatsby, who is seen as different from the rest of the wealthy people in the book, rarely drinks, while everyone else is constantly drunk. The scarcity of alcohol to the public made it desirable and fashionable to the upper class during Prohibition, despite its poor stigma prior to the era. The old saying goes, it is only illegal if you get caught. While many straightforward Americans viewed the American dream as a stable economic state some viewed it as a method to get rich quick.
The corruption of this era rose to unparalleled heights with some people losing faith in police officers, judges, and anyone in government. Prohibition only added to the chaos of the decade, with many ordinary citizens becoming criminals simply because they wished to consume alcohol. Throughout the nineteenth century moral reformers and prohibitionists worked tediously for the Prohibition of alcohol. At the time, many people believed that alcohol was responsible for all things wrong with society and the people in it.
For example, alcohol was blamed for poverty, disease, insanity, degeneracy, and crime. American citizens thought that Prohibition would alleviate the destructive effects of alcohol and transform society and its citizens into law-abiding, pure, healthy, honest people.
Often poisonous ingredients, such as methanol wood alcohol , were used. A government report from stated that nearly all of the , gallons of liquor confiscated in New York that year contained some type of poison. Jamaica ginger extract, also known as Jake, was sold in pharmacies as a headache remedy. Over time, more toxic ingredients were added that could result in paralysis, a condition often referred to as Jake Leg.
Despite the reality of the situation, overall it seemed like Americans were having a lot of fun during Prohibition. The character of millionaire Jay Gatsby represents the extremes of s wealth and decadence. Gatsby devotes his life to accumulating riches in order to attract the attention of his romantic obsession, the lovely but spoiled Daisy Buchanan. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from the other.
It is heavily inferred that Gatsby earned his fortune, at least in part, through bootlegging. How else could he afford his lavish parties with bottomless cocktails to spare? This fictional subplot is based in fact. For a small fee, doctors would prescribe their patients whiskey for just about any ailment, and sometimes no ailment at all.
Crooked pharmacists would even sell forged prescriptions to their customers. The novel, at least in part, provides a reflection of the social issues and attitudes of the time period. In honor of Gatsby, Fitzgerald and Prohibition, I decided to whip up a cocktail reminiscent of the time period. In , Edward lost his job and the family moved back to St. Paul when F. Scott was only In , F. Scott attended the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic school in New Jersey, where his talent for writing was recognized by his teachers.
Encouraged, he entered Princeton University in to further hone his craft, which he did so greatly, but at the expense of his coursework. And in , he dropped out of the university and enlisted himself in the army. As a second lieutenant in the infantry, he was then assigned to station Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama, where he met Zelda Sayre, the then year old daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. When the war ended in , F. Scott went back to New York determined to be wealthy enough for Zelda to marry him.
His novel, This Side of Paradise , was published in , and at 24 years old, F. Soon after, F. Scott supported his family financially through his writing of novels and short stories, while living an extravagant celebrity-status lifestyle. In , he published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned.
As seen through the eyes of Nick Carraway, we rediscover the age in which F. One of the issues that reshaped America after the war was a number of political changes that included the Eighteenth Amendment. On January 16, , the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified to be effective on January 16, Controlling alcohol consumption in America goes as far back to , wherein the General Court of Massachusetts illegalized the sale of hard liquor.
Scott Fitzgerald did an excellent job of portraying the American dream in his novel, The Great Gatsby. To understand the real meaning of money in this story, however, one must look at the s in its entirety.
In this essay, I will compare the movie, the movie, and the book versions of The Great Gatsby to demonstrate. Overnight, alcohol went from a common drink of choice to an illegal asset that became the heartbeat of bootlegging organizations and organized crime. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, the effects of Prohibition are event throughout. The main character, Jay Gatsby, would not be possible without the implementation of Prohibition.
Throughout the novel, one can identify the underlying themes of Prohibition. Situation: Daisy, Ms. He goes on to say that the book say that Whites are a superior race and they are to control all the other races or they will rise to control. Analysis: This passage is very racist and could offend all races especially minorities. This theme of racism continues frequently.
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