In the 1920s, a phenomenon swept the young nation. Being a flapper was becoming increasingly popular amongst teenage girls in the 1920s. Ellen Page's article’s main purpose is to try and make “older generations” understand what a flapper is, and to get support from them instead of judgment. Since this movement was beyond the social norms for women at this time, people tended to judge anyone who was a flapper, or associated with one. With an insider point of view, and even considering herself to be a “semi-flapper” this article is all about understanding and acceptance. Flappers, aka new women, were considered trendy. With a different style, such as “bright colored sweaters” and “fringed skirts”, Teenage girls wanted to express themselves, …show more content…
Page expresses immediately that she wants to be acknowledged, and to be heard and understood, because in reality, being a flapper is a lot more intricate than it seems. This is proven by her stating that being a flapper involves “self-knowledge and self-analysis”, and that limitations, and capabilities must be known. She then appeals to the older generations by referring to how they felt when they were her age, and how spontaneous they were, but they just did it in a different fashion. Trends and other things among that matter are always changing, and it's difficult for older generations to adapt to seeing something they don't outright agree with or understand.A way that she tries to make them understand and realize that a flapper isn't just a silly trend, was her making a pretty steep statement about how teens this are are “more thoroughly developed mentally”n order to be defiant as a women in the 1920s, not much effort is needed to be made. Women in the early 1900’s had very strict supertypes and expectations, so a teenage girl just wanting to dress differently and spunky, and being treated with “public condemnation and denunciation” is exactly the reason why she's writing