Free Living in Fitzgerald´s Echoes of the Jazz Age

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Fitzgerald does not associate the Jazz Age with jazz music, but he does associate it with free going men and women. Fitzgerald believes that the Jazz Age was a was a time of no care and living life to the fullest. He says “wherefore eat, drink, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die”(16). This is showing that the people of the Jazz Age did not care what happened tomorrow as long as they lived today to its fullest. When he says “that something had to be done with all the nervous energy stored up and unexpended in the War,” (13) he shows why people were so free going. Fitzgerald is saying that people did not know if there was going to be another war or if when they were going to die, so they had to live life today and not wait for tomorrow. He says that people will do whatever they can to make sure that they have the most fun they can while they were still on earth. This was not only a lifestyle but a social trend during the 20’s. Girls changed how they felt about their husbands and their lives. Fitzgerald says that “a world of girls yearned for the young Englishman; the old America...

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