Looking back in American history, America tends to have different phases that last about ten years. The 1920s will always be remembered in history for triumphant progress in many different fields. The 1920s were a time of great change in America in many different areas. The changes concerned the laws, especially the lifestyle of women and the moral values ​​by which they lived. One of the major events that sculpted this era was Prohibition. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the criminal life associated with Prohibition, causing Jay Gatz's huge transformation into Jay Gatsby and also causing a huge change in America. During the 1920s many different people had problems with drinking, and this was a very controversial topic for people of many different age groups. Patterson, the New York site explains that since the dawn of our country there has always been the controversial topic of alcohol, the way people abuse it and how they act under the influence of alcohol. Starting almost a hundred years before prohibitionist groups began to form to try to teach their peers about the “evils” associated with drinking. For groups that supported the ban on alcohol, they saw alcohol and its effects as a representation of poverty and other social ills that were occurring in America (The Prohibition Area). Some of these views about the evils of alcohol are still prevalent in today's society. Whenever it comes to a controversial topic or people in power across the country form groups to help educate their fellow citizens about their views. According to the Ohio State University Prohibition website, two main groups are credited with putting Prohibition in... half of the paper ......tzgerald weaves his vision of the 1920s into everyone's lives the characters in The Great Gatsby, but transforms Jay Gatsby above all the other characters in the novel. Works Cited Avey, Tori. "The Great Gatsby, Prohibition, and Fitzgerald." PBS, May 14, 2013. Web. February 26, 2014. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print."Temperance and Prohibition." Summary | Temperance and prohibition. Ohio State University, n.d. Web. 26 February 2014. "The Prohibition Era." Historic Patterson, New York, 2006. Web. 26 February 2014. "The 18th Amendment." The University at Albany, nd Web. February 26, 2014.Thornton, Mark. "Prohibition caused Gatsby's greatness." The Ludwig Von Mises Institute. Np, May 15, 2013. Web. February 27, 2014. “Unintended Consequences.” Ban: Unintended Consequences. PBS and Web. February 26. 2014.