Theme Of Women 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.

Society’s expectations of gender roles in the 1920s impacts men and women’s lives, but the expectations have a much larger impact on women. These gender roles are especially important in the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story focuses more on the men which is a direct reflection of the patriarchal society that the characters live in. Daisy, an important female character, is a victim of society’s discrimination against women. Society’s perception of Daisy overlooks her true value. In Daisy’s time, the men, like Tom and Gatsby, have looser morals but are still superior to her. This leads to the creation of stereotypes causing her to be objectified by the men throughout the book. Once readers see the societal norms from the 1920s, they will begin to understand why Daisy is treated unfairly. The patriarchy that drives Daisy’s community creates the social norm of women being subordinate to men making it seem as though she is a possession rather than a loving companion.

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.

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 were not equal to men during the era of the 1920’s. In “The Great Gatsby,” Fitzgerald represents a negative, misogynistic, stereotypical view of the various types of women during the era of the 1920’s. During the that time, women were not portrayed in a positive light., By writing a book centered around that time period, it causes one to wonder the message Fitzgerald was trying to illustrate about women and what he was saying about society as a whole. Fitzgerald represents the view of women within the 20’s by depicting each character as a representation of the many stereotypes occurring within that era. The main characters Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan each display pertinent roles within the story representing how women’s roles were

Throughout history, women have been able to influence and the world around us. Whether it’s from a political view or at home taking care of children, women have influenced and affected the world in many ways. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan’s social positions and interactions help them to influence and, sometimes, overpower the world around them, displaying the greater effect of women.

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

The Great Gatsby was written in 1925 to depict the American Dream. During this time, there was an ideal lifestyle for men and women. Ideally, women were meant to be housewives and men were meant to be the providers. Characters such as Daisy, Myrtle , and Jordan all represent different lifestyles and ways of obtaining the American dream. Daisy Buchanan, who uses her beauty to get what she wants. Myrtle Wilson is the mistress of Tom Buchanan, who is at rich man and she is poor ,but she was still able to use his money. Jordan Baker represents the “new woman” who does not live dependent upon a man and begins to dress in a different style.

The differences in the personality of women and men from that point and currently is upsetting especially with rights as well. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald the modernist novel there is a man trying to live the american dream and has difficulties on his way to that point. The differences between these three women are catastrophic because Daisy, Myrtle and, Jordan are extremely different in their own way. These women have their own difficulties as well and the problems with Daisy and Myrtle are to the extreme with each other. Daisy is a very intriguing character she is soft spoken when first known and slowly develops confidence.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for writing both short stories and novels that exhibit male protagonists attempting to achieve the American dream, achieving the American dream, and then suffering the consequences of doing so. Four of Fitzgerald’s protagonists who experience this are Jay Gatsby, Dexter Green, George O’Kelly, and Charlie Wales. Though each man’s story is different, all four of them have relatively similar rags-to-riches experiences that focus heavily on their love for a beautiful, unattainable woman. Each man falls in love with an illusion of his ideal woman, rather than the woman herself, and obtaining her becomes the focus of his American dream. Jay Gatsby, of The Great Gatsby, falls in love with Daisy Buchanan and spends his life longing for his aggrandized idea of her, though Daisy’s real character is depicted as superficial and not especially worth waiting a lifetime for.

“They were smart and sophisticated, with an air of independence about them, and so casual about their looks and clothes and manners as to be almost slapdash. I shared their restlessness, understood their determination to free themselves of the Victorian shackles of the pre-World War I era and find out for themselves what life was all about”. This was said by Colleen Moore, her description of women in the 1920’s. A woman in the 1920s would have been surprised to know that she would be remembered as a “new woman.” For the 1920s was the start of a new era for women, as well as their rights and roles in their community.

The Great Gatsby, and it gives us an insight into the gender roles of past WW1 America. Throughout the novel, women are portrayed in a very negative light. The author’s presentation of women is unflattering and unsympathetic. The women are not described with depth. When given their description, Fitzgerald appeals to their voice, “ she had a voice full of money”, their looks “her face was lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes, and a bright passionate mouth”, and the way in which they behave, “ ’They’re such beautiful shirts’ she sobbed”, rather than their feelings or emotions, for example, Daisy is incapable of genuine affection, however she is aimlessly flirtatious.

In the Great Gatsby, they’re three main women you will follow throughout the story. Their names are Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle. Daisy married a rich man named Tom Buchanan but have feelings for another man named Jay Gatsby. Jordan is a single rich golf player with a bachelorette way of living and Myrtle is the mistress of Buchanan in a unhappy, poor marriags.

Women obtained the right to vote in the 1920s, representing major strides in feminism and political empowerment. Societal conventions of the time era, however, reinforce patriarchal ideologies and traditional values, as women were expected to marry and be subservient to their husbands. This is perpetuated in works of literature of the time era, notably The Great Gatsby, published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Feminist literary theory helps expose the misogynist undertones of the novel by

Over time, the views that society has of women has changed. Women are now viewed as having a different purpose in life compared to during the 1900's, they are able to work and do tasks other than being a homemaker. Women have more choices now than they did in the 1900's. The women in My Ántonia and the women in The Great Gatsby have minimal choices about what they do in life.