The Great Gatsby has been described as a definitive record of the glamorous side of the Jazz Age

The Great Gatsby is full of lavish spending, huge parties and either round luxurious enjoyment, showing a definitive record of the glamourous side of the twenties on every level.America in the 1920s had the highest aliveness tired in the macrocosm, the United States owned around 40% of the entire worlds wealth, with this funds the established bountiful spent their time life-time a glamorous bread and butterstyle. In the 1920s the row of the established cryptical certainly knew how to be glamorous, as Fitzgerald shows through Daisy and gobbler Buchanan. The Buchanans theatre was more elaborate then Nick expected, it was a Georgian compound mansion, and they in addition had luxury items such as a motor gravy holder and horses. Tom obviously took pride in his house and processions, saying that he has got a nice place.The money was also spent immorally they eternally seem to beget a plentiful amount of alcohol, like the cocktails which Tom drank like it was a drop on t he bottom of a shabu showing he must drink a lot. This alcohol was bought lawlessly as forbidding was in place from 1920 to 1933 which banned the manufacture, sale and conveying of liquor in the USA. RACISMNot only did the established rich have luxury items, they also did not work for their money, giving them push-down stor epoch of free time to spend as they please, Jordan Baker had enough time to take up golfing, and play in tournaments. yet with all this money and free time the Buchanans lives are unfulfilled as they have spiritual goals, Daisy is unhappy in life and questions her purpose in life by saying What shall we do this afternoon? And the day after? And the adjoining thirty years? this showing the darker side to the 1920s.Fitzgerald shows glamour through Gatsbys extravagant parties, Gatsby is new money as he worked for his money. From Gatsbys crocked quantities of oranges to the orchestra which played at his parties, Gatsby made sure that his parties were glamorous . At first Gatsbys parties seem magical, as Gatsbys blue gardens were alive with the whispering and the bubbly and the stars. The floating rounds of cocktails permeated the garden and the air was alive with chatter and laughter, everybody seemed to be having a fantastic time. Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda would have known first-hand how glamorous these jazz age parties were as they often attended them and they lived a glamorous life style.Yet underneath the glamour of Gatsbys parties we see the bleaker side of the 1920s. Fitzgerald shows the work frame in to the parties, to scram the orange juice a butler had to squash a little button two hundred times. After the parties octonary servants toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes repairing the ravages of the night before, as the party guests left so much destruction in their way. Gatsbys parties may be glamorous but he paying a great deal to begin them this way.It is alleged that Gatsby made his money immorally, by bootle gging, Tom suggests this when he state I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I cut him. It was easy to make money feloniously in the 1920s, due to prohibition many found it easy to sell alcohol over the coming back or to speakeasies, which were secret bars in the 1920s, these people were often called bootleggers. This was an illegal way of getting the money showing unglamorous, illegal acts were done to make these glamorous parties.Therefore alcohol in Gatsbys parties was plentiful, he tied(p) had his own bar, but this alcohol led to do bylessness as snout look was drunk for about a week and alcohol also lead to recklessness in the form of car crashes, and violent actions with women bitch off into the night, dragged away by men said to be their husbands.Gatsby paid a great amount of money but did the guests really care about their host? Nick was one of the few guests, who had actually been invited, and of all of the guests who were at Gatsbys parties only one came to his funeral, this shows the caring attitude and shallowness of people in the 1920s.Despite the unprecedented economic growth and immoderate glamorous spending during the 1920s, the gap between rich and poor became increasingly prevalent. As most of the characters are very wealthy the rich and glamorous atmosphere defines the novels tone, the focus on the upper class life-style gives the novel a mood of extravagance. However, this society is contrasted with the poverty of those living near the Valley of Ashes which is based on T.S Elliotts poem The thriftlessness. Like Elliotts wasteland, the Valley of Ashes is a hideous image of a spiritually dead world, a symbol of the collapse of moral determine after the chaos of the war. In the Great Gatsby we see how the Wilsons live, which is a stark contrast from the Buchannans glamorous lifestyle. Nick could not see that the Wilsons lived in such a place, he thought the garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic flat tire s were concealed overhead. Their lifestyle is so unglamorous it gives the darker side of the Jazz age.Myrtle Wilson tried unexpressed to climb the classes by having an affair with Tom Buchannan, but even the apartment he provides for her is small and Tom treats her badly, he even breaks her nose, in his eyes she go forth always be lower than Daisy. George also tries very ruffianly to make his money honestly, when Tom comes in he is so eagre to have some business, George is a failure of the American Dream, he will never achieve the glamorous lifestyle he wants to provide.