Age Of Experimentation - The Twenties

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OY I10).” However, now “nice girls were smoking cigarettes – openly and defiantly…They were drinking – somewhat less openly but often all to efficaciously (OY V78).” Thus, under the new regime of the twenties, “not only the drinks were mixed, but also the sex of the drinkers…(OY V).” The new women would also dance freely with men and engage in activities in the backseats of their boyfriend’s new Ford or GM automobile. “Petting” and “necking” also became a popular activity with the local youngster of the twenties, and were the cause of many contentious arguments between mother and daughter. They were a heated topic of young girls in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise. Prior to the twenties, such behavior of the new woman such as petting was never to be tolerated. Traditionally, a couple would “…go dancing, [then] they may go for a movie with other, discuss books with them, play auction bridge with others, or go to the theater…(OY I11).” On the other hand, the “[new] women wanted to be men’...