The book Great Gatsby explains in a clear way how life was during the 1920’s in America.

During the 1920’s, the economy in America was booming. Because America gave weapons to the allies, they gained a lot of money. Moreover, America produced a lot of food, especially grain, for the poorer countries which were affected by the First World War. Because of this booming economy, there became a distinction in social classes. After World War I, many Americans felt distrust toward foreigners and radicals because they held them responsible for the war. These beliefs led to a revival of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Semitic group. This general distrust of liberal movements and foreigners lasted throughout the decade.

In 1920, Harding won the victory under the campaign promises of returning to “normalcy.” People wanted peace and prosperity and Harding tried to give it to them by returning the United States to its pre-war conditions. He established probusiness policies and went against labor unions. He pushed peace by urging disarmament. The Congress passed bills to restrict the number of immigrants coming into

Gatsby wanted to use his money so that he could impress Daisy and have things back to the way when they first met. Unfortunately in the end, he did not end up getting Daisy because too many things had changed.

When Gatsby and Daisy first met, Gatsby was in the war and was very poor. He came from a middle-class family from the Midwestern United States. Daisy came from a wealthy family and because of the views of society, these two were not able to pursue their feelings for one another. Gatsby then dedicated his life to becoming wealthy so that one day he could possibly have Daisy to himself. He bought a gigantic house that appeared later to be an imitation of the Hotel de Ville in Normandy. When Nick invited Daisy over for tea so that Gatsby would be able to meet her, Gatsby had Nick’s yard mowed, he sent over a fine silver tea set and even tulips to make Nick’s house look ritzier. Every weekend, he gave huge parties hoping, that by some chance, Daisy might show up at one of the parties. At these parties, he had the best of everything. He had bands that played music of the time, he brought in crates upon crates of fresh vegetables and other foods, and he had a large number of crates of wine and other alcoholic beverages. He also had the finest in automobiles for that time(the car-industry was one of the most important industries in the 20’s and people actually started to become mobile ). He had a yellow Rolls-Royce limo that was extremely ex

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