How Is Gloria Weston Presented In The Great Gatsby

The novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about societal difference between men and women the 1920s. Throughout the novel this theme is played through our main characters: Tom, Myrtle, and Daisy. Fitzgerald uses the possessive relationships between these characters to enlighten the reader about women’s social ranking. He demonstrates how men were able to control women by making them feel inferior. The author describes the importance of social class for women in the 1920’s through the possessive and ultimately destructive relationship of Tom and Myrtle.

Quotation #1: “In a little while I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face” (141).

Since society has existed, women have been known as different from men. For the longest time, women have been known as the “weaker sex” when compared to the male. There purpose, especially in the olden days is to obey and please the men. However nowadays there seems to be a more equality between the two genders. But even today discrimination between male and female takes place all over the world. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, you can see a lot of discrimination between the two sexes. The story takes place in the 1930’s and it has a bad view on women, they just got the right to vote for presidents, mayors, and senators. However most men thought that the women should only stay home and raise children, that they should not be involved in politics, and their ideas were not valuable. Women were treated as “house slaves” at times when all what they did all day, every day, was work around the house trying to improve the living for their husband and kids.

In "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he shows women, treated and presented as worse than men, and are rather disregarded and neglected by the male characters. Even Fitzgerald describes and creates the traits of the women in the book in a negative manner.

Feminism, the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is an often ignored view of the women’s perspective. It brings attention to how women have no expectations to go far in life, or have a reason for live beyond being used to reproduce. The most absurd thing is that the women in the story don’t have any interest to break out of the stereotype, and try to make a life for themselves. Throughout the story, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson are treated as possessions rather than humans.

Women empowerment is one of the biggest standing issues in society today. Women being mistreated or viewed differently from men has been a problem for as long as anyone can remember. In both The Great Gatsby and My Antonia the women were viewed differently in both social classes. Being rich and poor both had its advantages and its disadvantages. Due to women's social classes, different actions were viewed differently, and the outcomes were exceedingly different. Women in social classes were both viewed, treated and ended up dissimilar from each other. Both Antonia and Daisy faced different challenges throughout the book, clearly seeing the contrasting outcomes.

Everyone has a face, whether it be literal or figural. But in the story of The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald tells the story of how Nick Carraway observes the lives of others. Throughout the book he notices that each person has an outer apperance that they show to the world. But as Nick gets to know them, he realizes what truly lies within them. Fitzgerald tells the story of how a person’s appearance doesn’t reveal who they truly are through the literary devices of symbolism, point-of-view, and foreshadowing.

The 1920’s was the first wave of feminism, and it has been a problem throughout the United States since then, however in The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald purposely overlooks it perhaps due to his personal experience with women who weren’t the best to him. Feminism refers to “a series of political (series of actions to reach goals) for good changes on issues such as (rights of people to have children as they choose), domestic violence, motherhood leave, equal pay, women's right to vote, (unwanted repeated sex-related comments, requests, bullying, etc.), and sexual violence”. In this case the marginalization upon women is symbolized indirectly and reveals the impurity about women throughout the novel. Daisy and Myrtle were treated like literal animals throughout the novel and there was actual symbolism that furthered that idea. Daisy Buchannan is the main female character, having a romantic relationship with both Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Myrtle Wilson is a woman who is married to a hardworking man ,George Wilson, but she remained unfaithful throughout the whole novel. Lastly, Jordan Baker is probably the least mentioned woman but had an equally important role as the other few. Fitzgerald used the development of these three women to further the plot and theme of the book and show the treatment and role of women in that society at that time. Both Daisy and Myrtle were seen as gold diggers, having all their attention focused on material possessions and basing their love off of

“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.” (alfred north whitehead) A fair fit description of on how morality is truly functions. All throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby immorally is scattered throughout.

Iconic literary works often share common grounds that can be detected by readers and literary critics. Such similarities can be discerned from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. These classic novels can be effectively juxtaposed in regards to their portrayal of the role of women, the cruciality of setting, and the display of the issues of the eras.

Since society has existed, women have been known as different from men. For the longest time, women have been known as the “weaker sex” when compared to the male. There purpose, especially in the older days is to obey and please the men. However nowdays there seems to be a more equality between the two genders. But even today discrimination between male and female takes place all over the world. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, you can see a lot of discrimination between the two sexes. The story takes place in the 1930’s and it have a primitive view of women, they just got the right to vote for presidents, mayors, and senators. However most men thought that the women should only stay home and raise children, that they should not be involved in politics, and their ideas were not valuable.

By the same token, the relationship between the sexes is something rather sad. The men are dominant and are the head of the household. They are the ones in business, and the ones working for a living (if they can afford to do so.) However, the women still seem to get in the way of men. In fact, they seem to either lead to their demise or lead to their depression. In the book, The Great Gatsby, all seems to be well at first; the men are doing their deeds while the women party. However, things soon turn awry. Daisy’s flirting and resolution to be with Jay is what kills him in the end. Believing that Gatsby was driving and that Myrtle’s lover was Gatsby, Mr. Wilson seeks his revenge and he shoots Gatsby in Gatsby’s pool. “He was crazy enough

Scott F. Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, depicts the difficulties in achieving the American Dream, and what some of the morally questionable actions one would do to achieve it are. The novel focuses on a very rich man, named Jay Gatsby, and the strange obsession he has with Daisy Buchanan, a married woman who he had a relationship with in the past, before she got married. The book also talks about Gatsby’s perseverance to make Daisy fall in love with him, using his extreme wealth as well as power. The author uses money, extravagancy and almost fictional parties to show that the American dream is impossible to obtain. Money is the main reason that ignites the actions of the main characters in the book.

Freya holds a book in front of her face, the lack of understanding showing from a puzzled expression, as well as the fact that the book was upside down. She sat in the library of her home at about 2 pm trying to figure out the source of the problem.

Looking at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby through a feminist perspective, it’s apparent the text supports and challenges the assumptions of a patriarchal society. Interrogating this text with a critical feminist viewpoint reveals the men and women appear to be victims of social and cultural norms of the 1920s, which were firmly entrenched. However, some of the characters attempt to redefine these, especially the women in order to renegotiate the gender norms. Jordan resists social pressure to conform to feminine expectations and, despite Daisy and Myrtle living more traditionally, they are both willing to have affairs. The female characters approach feminism in a multitude of ways, representing different layers of narrative voices through a time of a feminist movement.