Living in the Basement, Away from First Floor C Wing, With only Great Music and Wit to Keep Company

Gertrude Ederle was extremely important to the 1920s. She was primarily known for swimming across the English channel, proving her haters wrong, and beating the previous record for the English channel. Ederle is important to the 1920s in a couple of ways. One such way she is important to the 20's is because she was the first woman to swim across the English Channel, a 35-mile-wide body of water. Another way she is important is because she beat the record for swimming across the channel. She swam across in 14 hours and 31 minutes, while the previous record, made by a man, was 2 hours slower. The theme that Ederle represents is The Growth of Celebrity. She represents this theme because she was honored/respected for what she did; women probably looked up to her like, if she can do it I can! She was an inspiration to the women kind. (747, sidebar)