Question

Which novel addressed the values of the national culture in the 1920s?

Answer 1

F. Scott Fitzgerald is credited with coining the phrase “The Jazz Age” in the title of his 1922 collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby was the quintessence of this period of his work, and evoked the romanticism and surface allure of his “Jazz Age” ,years that began with the end of World War I, the advent of women’s suffrage, and Prohibition, and collapsed with the Great Crash of 1929 years awash in bathtub gin and roars of generational rebellion. As Cole Porter wrote, “In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking,/But now God knows, Anything Goes.”