1920's

The Eighteenth Amendment is responsible for the prohibition of alcohol in the United States of American during the 1920's. The prohibition lasted approximately fourteen years. It made the process of manufacturing, selling, and transporting of alcohol completely illegal and unconstitutional. However, this did not stop individuals from purchasing and consuming alcohol beverages. The risk-takers owned private bars and offered liquor to those who wished to indulge themselves with alcohol. This ban on alcohol made the people want to drink it even more, and therefore they tried their best to obtain it. Doctors had the authority to prescribe their clients with whiskey, but eventually the prescriptions began to be passed out to drinkers without valid reasons. This had a connection with The Great Gatsby, due to Mr. Gatsby's costly parties that had alcohol. Nick made it clear that women in the party who had been adults recently, were quite unfamiliar with liquor, because they were too young when it was open to the public. Also, it portrays how there was still ways to obtain alcohol, despite the eighteenth amendment. Also, at the parties the guest would drink to a point where they would become drunk. As stated before, since drinking alcohol was illegal and banned, the guest had the urge to consume alcohol excessively.