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"Gaudy primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the wildest dreams of Castille. . . The air is alive with chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and the enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. . . The party has begun." The beauty and splendor of Gatsby's parties masked the innate corruption within the heart of the Roaring Twenties. Jazz-Age society was a bankrupt world, …

…of the twenties with the realized dreams of the first Dutch in America contrasting their progress against social stagnation of the twenties. Years of partying, of destroying dreams and dreamers, of driving recklessly onward without direction or responsibility had destroyed the neatly woven fabric of America. This solemn omen on the lost future of America in the twenties, of the impending destiny that awaited the heedless masses frames F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby.