Theme Of Women In The Great Gatsby

Society looks at daisy as if she is weak and deserves to only serve her husband. They believe she should do what she is told and obey her husband and family’s wishes. Daisy is the ideal woman of wealth through society's eyes in

When Daisy is first introduced in the story and movie, she is dressed in all white symbolizing purity and innocence. She, Nick Caraway, Jordan Baker, and her husband Tom Buchanan sit down to have dinner. Her husband mistress calls time and time again. She finally gets up to say something to him but it solves nothing. She sits back down being fully aware of her husband infidelity and does nothing. I wondered why she didn’t do anything about it or leave him. The simple answer was the wealth. Even though Daisy loved Gatsby when she first married Tom, she is staying for the same reason she got married in the first place. She enjoys the lavish life and if she leaves she loses it all. This was typical of women in the 1920s though. Daisy character is questioned many times in this story. First she has a daughter that she barely mentions. Even in the movie the girl only appears once. In the story Daisy says when she woke after giving birth she immediately asks the nurse if she had a boy or girl and the nurse told her it was a girl. She then goes to say “I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope shell be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world a beautiful fool.” (Fitzgerald 17) This suggest that she feel like women have no place in the world. This also reflects how Fitzgerald own personal reflection of women. In an article titled Feeling "Half Feminine": Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in The Great Gatsby, Frances Kerr wrote that “"In 1935 Fitzgerald told his secretary Laura Guthrie, "Women are so weak, really-emotionally unstable and their nerves, when strained, break.” (Kerr 406) I think that this is why he made Daisy, who is the main female character in the book, look at herself as having no place in this world and as a fool. The next time Daisy character is really questioned is at the end of the book when she hit Myrtle Wilson and let Gatsby take the blame for it. She didn’t know he was going to get

Daisy Buchanan illustrates the downfall of the stereotypical upper class women of the 1920s; she is “high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the

She lured men into her trap, such as Tom and Gatsby, to build herself up and to achieve her lavish goals. She manipulated each of them into obeying her every command, both to get her way and to allow her to have some power in a society otherwise wholly under male control. The only pleasure she gets out of life is in living a glamorous lifestyle surrounded by wealthy people and extravagant material goods. She has come to fully rely on the life built for her by Tom, the primary male figure in her life. This is proven when she chooses to stay with him even after he cheated on her for months and after she is reunited with Gatsby, the man she may have truly loved. She fears taking the risk of leaving her comfortable, lavish lifestyle. She is painstakingly aware of the blatant sexism that she faces, and she is quite pessimistic because of it. “ She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. 'All right, ' I said, 'I 'm glad it 's a girl. And I hope she 'll be a fool – that 's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool '” (Fitzgerald, 17). Daisy is intelligent enough to realize how the society they live in values beauty far more than brains in women. She conforms to this rigid societal expectation and attempts to live the carefree, unsuspecting life of the average young woman in the 1920s and avoids confrontational issues for the most part, such as her complex history with Gatsby. Her pessimism did

At a young age, many Americans are told that in order to be successful they must achieve certain goals such as becoming married or going to college. This alters the American mentality towards the roles men and women in society; expectations of the ideal life are embedded into people’s minds. The relationship between men and women appears numerous times in American literature such as “The Story of an Hour” and “The new Anti-Feminist Campaign”. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan live unique lives that display the attitudes of women during the 1920s. The expectations of women changed in the 1920s and gender relations play a major role in America, because it lead to changes regarding society’s view on suffrage and marriage.

Daisy is a young rich woman married to a very wealthy man, Tom Buchanan. F.Scott Fitzgerald makes a clear establishment of women that presented women as sort of a “second sex.” On page 89, Daisy is found in a white dress acting properly and delicately. The follow a social code if you will, that leaves many female characters indistinguishable

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.

1800 -1826 was a period of time when women challenged their role of gender and equality in work and education. Mary Shelley was a feminist writer who her works have been taken seriously. It seems that it was unusual for a woman to become a writer in that time. Austen and Shelley’s works were good examples of social novels because they call the society attention to different issues that individuals became a ware of in their era as well as in our time; issues such as the different between rich and poor and women roles in the society.

The packet states that “It is often assumed that little girls can’t do math… In short, girls are programmed to fail… (87) females must be beautiful, sweet and young if they are to be worthy of romantic admiration…” (89). Daisy Buchanan herself confirms this when she states, while referring to her daughter, “I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool – that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (1.118). With this in mind, it can be said that, unless a woman is beautiful and accepts things the way they are, she will never be accepted in society. This idea is further shown with Daisy and Jordan, although the two are close friends and fairly high in social status, have very different values. Daisy is the materialistic, elegant, “white” wife of Tom Buchanan who chose the marriage

Throughout history, wealth, gender and race have determined one's social rank. F. Scott Fitzgerald explores this in his writing of The Great Gatsby. Despite the women’s rights movements happening during the 1920’s when the book was written, it is obvious that Fitzgerald still implies female inferiority through his writing. This is usually shown through mannerisms of male characters or comments made by women due to societal pressures. It is clear that in their society, the portrayal of women as sexual objects, the expectation of female dependence and the idea that women are the property of men has been normalized.

There are four major characters in The Great Gatsby who are seen and brought up over and over again throughout the duration of the novel. All the events in this novel seem to be centerer around this group of characters and their past actions. These characters are Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Backer, and Myrtle Wilson.

During the 1920’s, Many rights were given and amendments were established to women. Most women were turned down because they did not have the same archetype as men. They were seen as ornaments and treated like inhumane articles to the world. Women were to be served as housemaids: cleaning the house, cooking for the family, and helping their husbands in the garden and on the farm. This generation of women came together to stand up for the freedom they deserve. There was a small selection of wealthy women that got whatever they wanted. In The Great Gatsby, a wealthy main character, Daisy Buchanan, finds a way to get what she wants. She had a reclined lifestyle in the novel. She was very wealthy and lived in a town with “Old Money”. This money will last for the next upcoming generations. She had a friend named

Women throughout history were dependent on men because of their limited rights. Even with women getting more rights as time goes on there would still be biased opinions against them making it harder for women to get good jobs and have a middle class life independently. So marrying a man for money was practical if the woman was attractive and not intimidating. Books like The Great Gatsby and Of mice and Men have similar female characters showing this theme of women sacrificing their lives literally and symbolically for a man’s benefit.

Economic prosperity following a hard-fought war created a decade of marvelous nonsense—filled with mischief and merriment—that often marks the beginning of modern America. The 1920s was an era of festivity; it was a time that stressed wealth excessively. F. Scott Fitzgerald showcases this strong emphasis on the lavish, materialistic lifestyles in his powerful novel, The Great Gatsby, designing episodic recounts of a man’s summer amongst his rich male friends. In the midst of these men’s prosperity exist women who are forced to submit to men’s supposed superiority. Male dominance presents these female characters as subhuman and engenders their oppression. Fitzgerald pummels these ideas of feminine inferiority and objectification, repeatedly attacking feminine dignity through the manifestations of his distinctively invented characters.

The most notable female character throughout the novel is Daisy Buchanan, the love interest of both Tom Buchanan, her current husband, and Jay Gatsby, her former lover. She was born into a long line of wealth, and raised to be a lady of class. Within the party atmosphere, she is acknowledged, typically