Similarities Between Chicago And The Great Gatsby

A Look Into the Jazz Age.

Money can fuel purposes and dreams. Different societies from multiple times have attempted to get more and more money to their names, and this is because we, the people, have given money more power than anything known in this world. People believes that money can buy happiness, which is disconcerting. In the 1920’s, for example, the multiple social classes would disagree in many ways, but money stayed always in every people's minds, from poor to rich, everyone moved for money. Many different authors attempted to use their characters and settings to illustrate the era they lived in. A character is a story by itself, each character in Chicago by Rob Marshall and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald would represent a major group of people, and in just one little story, with one example of each, the author perfectly explains the major social classes of the 1920's, how they interact with each other and their eagerness for money, being the only thing that seems to move them, no matter their status or

Chicago and The Great Gatsby are both narratives that explain much of the culture people had in the 1920’s. A culture where money roared above people’s rationale. A culture mainly characterized by incoherent decisions done only with dollar signs in mind. The image one can get out of these two stories is one where people’s love relationships were unstable, where the authority shared tables with the corrupts, where nothing was wrong as long as money was there to judge. Everyone ran for money, and did whatever seemed to be needed for it. People fought for respect, for love, for a place in society for everything that stood under money’s property. The roaring twenties created a life where everything had a