All throughout history, society has corrupted the minds of youth into thinking, acting and dressing in certain ways in order to achieve success in life. The Jazz Age era was no exception. People, particularly the young adults (as teenagers were called in those days), were greatly impacted by societal motives. The short story, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," is a good portrayal of the ways in which young minds were fouled with images of what was `popular' and what was the `right way to act.'

The Jazz Age was a time when people began to throw out the rules and become independent from the image in which society once said they should have. People, females in general, began dressing more scandalously and revealing more of themselves to others. Style became a very prominent issue. The way a person dressed reflected the personality of the person they truly were...