Feminine Power In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jordan says, “She might have the decency not to telephone him a dinner time. Don’t you think?" (Fitzgerald 20). Throughout the novel, it is clear to see that their relationship is not a happy one. Tom seems to be abusive towards Daisy and evidently does not care much for her.

This is a normal thought for this time period as women in the 1920s had few rights and strict standards, but for Makowsky to say that Jordan and Daisy are limited by their gender when it is clearly stated in the book that Jordan is a troublemaker and a dishonest woman, is a stretch in my opinion. I do not think that her gender is the aspect that limited her fully, I think that her personality as a person has limited her in life aspects. This is shown whenever Nick reveals that she had cheated in her first-ever big golf tournament, as well as when he says she is incredibly dishonest. These comments were made when Nick first met her, showing the reader that Jordan is known around Long Island as dishonest. In conclusion, I think that Makowski is wrong when she states that Jordan and Daisy are limited by their gender.

Fitzgerald’s use of this incident shows that because Jordan was raised in a high social class, she did not value the things that

Myrtle's character embodies the darker side of the American dream. Myrtle wants a new life with Tom, who represents wealth and status. “The only crazy person I was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake” (Fitzgerald 39) This reveals Myrtle's bitterness against her husband and her conviction that she is entitled to better.

The Great Gatsby is a classic book, beloved by thousands as they read about the characters and the decisions they make. But what motivates these characters to make the decisions they do? We know all about the desires and motivations of the men in the book, but what about the women? In The Great Gatsby, Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the motivations they have depend greatly on the situations they encounter. Myrtle, Jordan and Daisy all lead very different lives which is shown by the way they act, think, and feel about the things that are happening to them.

Jordan Baker was an excellent golfer, as seen in the fact that she made it to the finals at a professional level. This shows the difference between her and daisy. Jordan is breaking limits, while on the other hand Daisy is stuck within the gender roles. There were times when Jordan was the best of these three characters, but there were also times when Gatsby was the

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, is full of themes of wealth, love, and tragedy, as well as a subtle but powerful representation of gender. During the time this book was written, women’s suffrage had begun, so women were taking their first steps towards equality with men. The three main women characters in the novel - Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan Baker- all have things in common but can be vastly different; they reflect both man and society’s view of women in the early 20th century. The Great Gatsby portrays the characters Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan as stereotypes of women during the 1920s, which is shown through their behavior, beliefs, and ultimate fates and their personalities display both powerful and potentially harmful stereotypes of women at this time.

Through use of comparison between Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s message about women and feminine power is that having a man deprives the women of their power, ranking higher in social standards deepens the wound of selfishness, and being deceptive

In the novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays women in an extremely negative light. The idea Fitzgerald gives off is that women are only good for their looks and their bodies and that they should just be a sex symbol rather than actually use their heads. He treats women like objects and the male characters in the novel use women, abuse women, and throw them aside. I believe that Daisy, Jordan and Myrtle are prime examples of women in The Great Gatsby being treated poorly.

The novel; The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, explores multiple themes. One specific theme, however, that stands out can be considered the gender roles portrayed throughout the novel. Specifically, his portrayal of female characters, such as Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson. In some respects, Fitzgerald represents gender roles in his novel, in quite a traditional manner. In the novel, men are responsible for earning money, so that they can then care for the women.

The source of Myrtle and George Wilson’s problems is that they have different viewpoints on each other which lead to Myrtle’s dissatisfaction with him. George’s successful look and behaved manner made Myrtle have the incentive to marry him. She believed that George would be able to financially take care of her. When explaining why Myrtle married George, she states that she “‘married him because [she] thought he was a gentleman… [she] thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick [her] shoe’”

Scott Fitzgerald’s depiction of women in The Great Gatsby readers see women are prepared to emerge into the modern way of life, but society is not ready for the new nontraditional image of

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, is full of themes of wealth, love, and tragedy. Also during the time this book was written, women’s suffrage had begun, so women were taking their first steps towards equality with men. The three main women characters in the novel: Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan Baker, all have things in common but can be vastly different; they reflect the view of women in the early 20th century. The Great Gatsby portrays the characters Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan as stereotypes of women during the 1920s, seen in their behavior, beliefs, and their ultimate fate.

Anti-feminism in The Great Gatsby In The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920’s, the female characters are mostly portrayed shallowly. The 1920’s era, a period known in America as the Roaring Twenties is portrayed as decaying social and moral values by drawing attention to such societal misconducts. It is shown that Men are very dominant over women. During this time between the world wars, progressive women walked the streets of New York with no job just wearing short dresses and being housewives.

• Even Nick Carraway is no sympathic towards her . However, Nick’s ideals of womanhood seem to differ from Tom’s only in the matter of degree. • He rejects Jordan Baker on the grounds of her moral inadequacy and indifference, but his descriptions suggest a concealed source of antagonism: she is ‘unfeminine’, androgynous, more of a boy than a ‘lady’. There is a covert theme in the novel which is never openly raised by Nick as a narrator or Fitzgerald as an author, and that concerns the status and identity of women. • He(Nick) is referring to Jordan Baker when he slips in this comment, deliberately making the reader an accessory to his way of thinking by the use of the pronoun ‘you’: