The Great Gatsby is set during which named American era?

The Great Gatsby is set during the Jazz Age.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel takes place mainly on Long Island and in New York City during 1922, a period associated with the Jazz Age. The era was marked by jazz’s growing popularity, consumer prosperity, changing social habits, flapper culture, and a fascination with nightlife and spectacle.

The setting is more than background. Gatsby’s lavish parties, automobiles, alcohol, and uncertain sources of wealth reflect the decade’s energy and contradictions. Prohibition was in force, so the novel’s suggestion that Gatsby may profit from bootlegging connects its private drama to a major national reality.

Fitzgerald helped popularize the phrase through his 1922 collection Tales of the Jazz Age, and critics later identified him as one of the era’s defining writers. The Jazz Age is often used broadly for the 1920s, though its boundaries are not perfectly fixed. It is closely related to the “Roaring Twenties,” but the terms emphasize different things: jazz and cultural change in one case, and economic and social exuberance in the other.