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.

The encouragement to focus on physical appearance has been an all-time buzz in our society, and with it comes the possible significant increase in negative body image. While some of us think that ideal body image are only women's issues, men—turn out—have body image issues too! Just like women, men are bombarded with “perfection” blueprint as well. Media, advertisements, and professional sports create a compelling and toxic mix of messages, assaulting men with ideal body images of young, fit and muscular professional athletes and male models with bulging muscles and six-pack abs. Enough to make an average Joe feels like an average old and fat Joe. This dilemma is what men go through based on Ted Spiker's article, How Men Really Feel About Their Body.

In today’s society, concepts of gender roles and body images plague the minds of young ladies and men of the millennial generation. These are enforced by popular culture in song, video and magazines that are published. These roles and images are seen by and influence the minds of mainly young girls but not more popularly seen, young men. Magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Sports Illustrated flaunt slim women and very muscular men with “perfect” bodies and hair on their covers and give no thought to the readers and how it may influence their minds. Also, the artists of this generation also have a large influence on how young men and women see themselves and perceive their gender roles to be. These affect the minds of persons in ways such as they end up having a lower self-esteem as they cannot live up to societal image standards, young men and women tend to follow the gender roles that they see and young girls and boys ultimately turn to drastic measures to fulfil the body images that they feel they should obtain.

This transformation exhibits how society changed in its perspective on physical appearance. This marked the beginning of men’s desire for what women had been calling the “perfect” body. Before World War II, money was not lavishly spent on the perfection of the body (Luciano 11). After the return of the soldiers, men had more money as women retained their postwar jobs. With women making substantially larger paychecks, men had the ability to spend more time and money to make themselves look like the models displayed in the media. With the new advertisements by Calvin Klein, such as the Mark Wahlberg, also known as Marky Mark, steamy ads for men’s briefs, the appearance of male bodies has intensified (Luciano 112). More and more men, now with the monetary means of looking good, are trying to achieve perfection with their bodies. They want to have the same bodies as those shown in the advertisements and, at times, will not stop until they have reached that goal (Grogan 95).

Daisy is one of the most materialistic characters in The Great Gatsby. She even loves money more than she loves her own husband. Throughout this book it became prominent that Daisy only married Tom to keep her social status and to appease her parents demands. Daisy had “an absolutely

Today in modern society, we are driven by social forces. Not only do we strive for human approval and companionship, we also thrive on social media. The media plays such a pivotal role in what we buy, eat, wear, etc. that we are conditioning ourselves to fit the mold for the “perfect” or “ideal” body type. This social construct has been a pressing issue for many years regarding the female physique, but not as much has been said on behalf of men. When confronted with appearance based advertisements, men are more likely to experience muscle dissatisfaction, weight disparities, and anger and/or anxiety toward showing their body in public. This paper will address these facets of the media’s effect on male body image as well as presenting what has been done to address this quietly debilitating issue.

When Daisy finally attended one of Gatsby's parties she wore a flashy yet settle dress. It was a beautiful dress and it fit the normal 1920's "look" for women. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote this novel to show case authentic women in the 1920's. Meanwhile in the 1920’s there were three classes people were a part of.

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 Roaring Twenties, a time of huge parties and huge changes. The fictional book, The Great Gatsby explains the twenties as one wild and carefree time period. One of the main characters in the book, Gatsby, throws these extravagant parties, where people from all over New York come to witness them. Women buy fancy dresses, men wear lavish tuxedos, everyone drinks, everyone dances, and everyone has the best night of their lives. While Gatsby’s lifestyle may exaggerate the dazzling twenties a little bit, the majority of these stories hold true to their glory.

A woman desperate for love and attention, a woman bored with life, and a woman bored with her husband. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, we can see that Myrtle, Daisy, and Jordan all talk to men differently throughout the novel, but also have common features while communicating with them. We can see this when all three woman interact with Gatsby, Nick, and Tom throughout the story. Within the novel, the major female characters talk to men differently and alike throughout the book.

The Great Gatsby by E. Fitzgerald is a novel in which women are represented as the weaker gender, and where men are considered with the most power, because society had given them such definitions, but actually we can see that women have their own voices. When understanding a woman in the 1920s, we would assume that during the Jazz Age, women were always associated with their husbands and that they were never independent; that women were represented as an accessory for their husbands; they were interesting for their clothes and their ‘’flappers’’ look as opposed to their character. But actually women in the 1920s went through a big change socially and physically. The gentle sex started to have more values and to earn respect in society;

Women today have many opportunities that women of the 1920s did not have; although many will still marry. They will not marry for the sle reason of having someone to support them. In F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby he writes about several female characters who are clearly displaced to us.Although the story revolves around a man chasing a dream, the female characters stand out. Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan all have different wants and needs in their lives but the restrictions of the times affect them all differently.

Women today have many opportunities that women of the 1920s did not have,although many will still marry, they will not marry for the sole reason of having someone to support them. In F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby,he writes about several female characters who are clearly displayed to us. Although the story revolves around a man chasing a dream, the female characters stand out. Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan Baker all have different wants and needs in their lives, but the restrictions of the time affect all of them differently.

It sets many unnecessary standards that men feel obligated to follow. Men feel like they need to acquire all these characteristics in order to feel comfortable. They assume that their bodies need to look like a precise copy of how the media displays men. It makes them think that if their bodies do not look like that, they are doing something wrong or they feel uncomfortable with their body. For example, they look up to health magazines to get an idea of what they feel they need to look like. They do not even think about how this images are enhanced to make the men on the cover seem perfect. Those images are just displaying standards that are absurd and nearly impossible to achieve. Raymond Lemberg also states that only 1 to 2 percent actually have the “perfect body.” Society focuses on perfection, they are being convinced into believing that they need to look a certain way, that they need to obtain a flaw-free, and muscular body to be

Women in magazines are usually tall, extremely thin, and their faces are covered in makeup. Women can easily develop insecurities in the way they look and feel about themselves because of magazines. Women choose to read certain magazines according to their interests. However, their interests are usually congruent with those of the majority of women or they wouldn’t be reading that particular magazine and those magazines wouldn’t stay in business. On the flip side of the sex factor, influences from magazines such as “For Him” magazine and “Maxim” weigh heavily on many men’s self security. These magazines teach men not only how they should look but also how they should view things. An example of this is a macho, semi sexist, tough guy, bull headed, over confident attitude. These magazines define for men the writer’s essence of a real man. Men as a whole atone themselves to such lifestyles probably out of fear of not living by these structures. Although magazines have a strong influence on the masses they are by no means the most influential medium there is.