"They were intelligent and sophisticated, with an air of independence, and so easy in their appearance, dress, and manners as to be almost forthright" , Collen Moore said of the flapper in the 1920s. It has been said that F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby reflects the Jazz Age in America in the 1920s. He inhabits and depicts a different world that has erected a wall between different men, women, and religions (Berma 79). Fitzgerald reflects the Jazz Age in The Great Gatsby by telling the reader, somewhat from the end, a story about a group of people living in New York in the summer of 1922. An article written by Ivana Nakić Lučić outlined the way in which Fitzgerald's novel reflects the Jazz Age. Nakić Lučić says FitzgeraldDrinking in the 1920s was very common. Author Mitchell Newton-Matza says that when we talk about the Jazz Age, we don't go full circle without talking about Prohibition. In The Great Gatsby many characters drink liquor, which was very popular at the time. The Eighteenth Amendment stipulated that people could not drink. It was forbidden but people found ways to get the liquor and were good at hiding it. (Newton-Matza). It was a fun time living in America. The people of this time were very The reader can see the colors of the shirts “apple green, lavender, and soft orange” (92). The women in The Great Gatsby wore dresses, which were considered the norm for women in the 1920s. Clemente also said that color signified class and showiness. The brighter the colors were worn, the richer they made the characters appear. People during this time wanted to be noticed. To get noticed, people wore shiny clothes and dressed with a certain air that to the wandering eye seemed like they had it all together.