What 'The Great Gatsby' Reveals About The Jazz Age

'F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel embraced jazz, while also falling prey to the racist caricatures associated with it'

Gabrielle Bellot at JSTOR Daily

"'It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,' Fitzgerald famously wrote of the 1920s in a 1931 essay, 'Echoes of the Jazz Age'."

See Fitzgerald, "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" from Tales of the Jazz Age in Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 3, and The Great Gatsby in Great Books of the Western World (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 60.

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