Semester Dos, Blog 8

"Their intrest rather touched me and made them less emotionally rich -- nevertheless, i was confused and a little disgusted as a drove away. it seemed to me that the thing for Daisy to do was the rush out of the house, child in arms -- but apparently there were no suck intentions in her head."

This connects to flappers because it is the exact opposite of what flappers are. During that age there were the traditional women and then flappers, Daisy is more of a traditional women instead of a flapper. I think that being oppressed as women were it forced them to become more of flappers.

"This is a valley of ashes -- a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens."

This connects to the Guilded Age because Nick, a rich guy is commenting on the poor working class that was still very prominent during the Guilded Age. It is a perfect representation of this age because you have the elite that are rising represented by Nick and Tom, and then the poor underclass that is the valley of ashes.

"In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another"This connects Prohibition because this is during the prohibition but he still has a full bar and isn't very discrete about it at all. this kind of tells me that just because he lives on east egg he can violate certain laws and the police wont really care.