Cartoons of the "Roaring Twenties"

Provider: Dr. Ron Tranquilla

What societal values do you see reflected in the cartoons?

How are these values depicted in the literature of the 'twenties?

Which are celebrated, which criticized? Do you find any ambivalences?

YOUNG BRIDE (closing the Book of Etiquette): Oh dear, I don't know what to do! Here I have the minister coming to dinner and I simply can't find out if I should serve cocktails before or after grace.

Ethel Plummer

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"What are your college colors?"

"Orange and gin."

Arthur Dove

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"Have a cigarette, Ethel. You're attracting an awful lot of attention by not smoking."

C. F. Peters

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"Helen, I declare, your dress scarcely covers your body.

"What's the matter with my body?"

Ethel Plummer

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"Where can I be vaccinated so that it will not show?"

"On the ear."

John Held

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THE NEGLECTED ONE'S MOTHER:
She's really a sweet little thing, even if she is shallow.

THE FAMILY FRIEND:
But just the type, my dear, that gets us men in beyond our depth.

Walter De Maris

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"What are you thinking of, granny?"

"I was remembering the costume that I used to go bathing in,
and I was wondering what your granddaughter would wear."

J. Conacher

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SHE: At this distance it's hard to tell the men from the women.

HE: Yes, at this distance it's not worth trying.

Ethel Plummer

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Galosh!

BEWILDERMENT OF OLD PARTIES AT RECENT
DEVELOPMENT IN YOUNG WOMEN'S FOOTGEAR

W. Morgan

Open, flapping galoshes, a 'twenties fad, is said to
have given the name to the Flappers.

External Links American Literature Survey 2; Cartoons of the "Roaring 'Twenties'"