he never wrote drunk, it affected the selling of his books (Gallo). His short-life was enough to show what the United States meant in terms of the reckless 20's. Fitzgerald wrote about prohibition, new automobiles, victory abroad, popular fads and new wealth (Reynolds).
             The 1920's were known as the Roaring Twenty's because the economy at the time was through the roof and people were partying all over the place. At the time there was a legal ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drink called prohibition. Only drug stores were able to sell whiskey, but only with medical prescription. Since a lot of people didn't feel like drinking the gin they made in their bathtubs all the time there was a huge market for organized crime. Organized criminals catered to the needs of the drinking public by illegally supplying them with liquor and made a fortune doing it. Even with all the crime in the Jazz Age though, it will still be remembered for its glittering lights and unbridled romance. There was a reference to the 1919 World Series, (That's the
             one where the players on the Chicago White Sox helped out organized crime by not trying their hardest when it counted). In the novel Gatsby is a criminal--his fortune comes from bootlegging illegal alcohol and other criminal activities, which was against the Prohibition (Gevaert).
             The Prohibition, was the legal ban on the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drink; by extension, the term also denotes those periods in history when such bans have been in force, as well as the political and social movements advocating them. Such movements (also called temperance movements) have occurred whenever significant numbers of people have believed that the consumption of alcoholic beverages presented a serious threat to the integrity of their most vital institutions, especially the institution of the family (Gevaert).
             This law defined the prohibited "intoxicating liquors" as tho...