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That's the thing about the Jazz Age. Its excess was, in part, a way of recovering from the unbelievable horror of WWI—there were as many shell-shocked soldiers hitting the bottle to rid themselves of demons as there were flappers with awesome dance moves. It's depressing, but it's true… and The Great Gatsby gets the Jazz Age's mix of merry hedonism and sorrows-drowning totally right.