The Femme Insane In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

During Daisy’s visit with Gatsby and Nick, it becomes clear that all Gatsby has ever done in the past five years was solely for Daisy; from collecting newspaper clippings of her throughout the years to buying a house directly across from hers, admiration evolves into obsession. Moving on from Daisy was not an option even considered by Gatsby, he had expectations and dreams set in stone that caused Daisy to “tumble[d] short of his dreams” (101). Afterward, in the hotel scene, we see Gatsby lose his composure as Tom chips away at his lies, revealing that what he claimed to be “God's truth” was really only half true (69). Frantic and desperate, Gatsby tries his best to convince Daisy she never loved Tom and to tell him she wanted a divorce; however, Daisy started realizing just how disheveled Gatsby really was, and “with every word she was drawing further and further into herself” (142). When the pleading became too much to bear, Daisy sought refuge in Tom; Gatsby now realizes everything is slipping from his grasp, and reality was overcoming the illusion he had built in his mind.

Because he was so obsessed with returning to the past, he could not see past the distortions. Realizing that he has won over Daisy from Gatsby, he reveals all of Gatsby’s secrets about his “drug stores.” Daisy is appalled and Gatsby is speechless as he realizes he has lost her completely. Tom is so confident that he tells Daisy to go home with Gatsby, now that he “‘realizes that his presumptuous little flirtation is

Gatsby is aware that Daisy may no longer be in love with him, but he still wants to keep trying to impress Daisy to one day impress her and make her part of his

Daisy soon leaves Tom’s side and joins Gastsby’s, and together they would dance, then they sat and chatted with each other on Nick’s steps. When Daisy leaves for the night and Garsby realizes that she did not have a good time at the party, exaggerated to Nick that “she used to be able to understand '' (Fitzgerald 85). Later in the conversation, he tells Nick in determination that he was going to fix everything with Daisy the way it was before (Fitzgerald 85). Gatsby is uneasy and panicked at the fact that Daisy did not enjoy the party. He is frustrated that he cannot figure out Daisy and that their relationship is not the same as it used to be.

(70). In many moments like this one throughout the novel, Gatsby gets defensive of himself, his life, and the work he’d done to get there. He highlights the celebrated people that appear at his parties, and the interesting things that they do in hopes to level with Daisy. In Gatsby’s mind, he must be an upper-class person with upper-class friends, and an upper-class house and host upper-class parties to get with an upper-class girl. Gatsby’s defense must be airtight in order to convince Daisy to stay with him, so he focuses on defending his name and his reputation and loses sight of everyone around him—especially Nick.

The 1920s, often referred to as the “Roaring Twenties,” was a decade in which American women were granted newfound freedoms such as improved education, rights to vote, et cetera. Yet women continued to live in a male-dominated society where deceit, money, and power were rampant. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby recalls the account of Nick, a young man who moves to the West Egg of Long Island and later meets Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby has one desire which is to win Daisy Buchanan back from her husband Tom Buchanan which would ultimately end up leading to his demise. Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan navigate through the male-dominated society to achieve their goals.

Karen Giron English 11 Carr 5/11/23 In F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson and Daisy Buchcan are two female characters created by the author. They are examples of two contrasting types of women from the Roaring Twenties. Although both women are preoccupied with matters of money and social status, their personalities differ and their core beliefs are what drive their behavior and judgment. Fitgerald emphasizes the shallowness and superficiality of the wealthy elite through these characters.

Gatsby has loved Daisy for a long time but did not meet her “money requirements'' and she later married Tom. Now that they’ve been married he wants to gain this love back from Daisy and is doing different things to

to which Tom immediately tries to make excuses for why he told the man of gatsby and why he is now dead. Tom is said to have a defensive tone which makes it seem he is trying to guilt trip Nick. Doing so by talking of the grief he feels himself and how bad it made him feel to hear of Gatsby's death. As if to make reasons for his greed and why he did the things he did. Nick writes about how he feels about Daisy and Tom now and how he knows the way they see things their actions were justified and unselfish- stating that they can't see the truth to it all.

Gatsby wanting to take Daisy away from Tom felt as if he was fighting for an object rather than a human. Gatsby never really sat down and asked Daisy how she felt because in reality he didn’t care other than wanting her in his possession. Fitzgerald says, “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before.

That reveals to Nick, how Gatsby will befriend people no matter how horrible their actions and cores are. Gatsby not only interacts with criminals but is also one with himself. When Gatsby and Tom start arguing about Daisy, Tom exposes one of Gatsby's side endeavors. Turns out that Gatsby alongside Wolfshiem, “brought up a lot of side-street drug-stores… and sold grain over the counter” (Fitzgerald 133). Gatsby willingly selling alcohol is a major deal, considering this was during prohibition when it was illegal to manufacture, sell, and drink any alcoholic beverages.

He may even be pleased to see Daisy so overwhelmed, as to him it proves her undying affection for him. Gatsby’s unfazed counterbalance to Daisy’s dewy-eyed exhaustion is laced with pretension over his newly acquired persona. Living up to his self-made greatness has evidently caused him to lose some humanity; he is acting cynically and superficially only to reinforce what he believes makes him worthy of Daisy’s attention. This is proven when he says “‘I want you and Daisy to come over to my house...

Gatsby became involved in illegal activity to obtain some money to impress Daisy. His web of lies is discovered by Tom. “I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.’ He turned to us and spoke rapidly. " He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter.”

Gatsby wants his relationship with Daisy to be “just as if it were five years ago”(109), so when he meets her daughter “he [keeps] looking at the child with surprise”, Nick describes that he doesn’t think that “[Gatsby] had ever really believed in its existence before”(117). Gatsby has no conception of Daisy’s current life, only the one he has in his mind, so when he sees her real life, it tarnishes his idea of his forthcoming life with Daisy. In a like manner, Gatsby’s “hell of the mind” culminates when Daisy can’t say that she never loved Tom and tells Gatsby “I love you now--isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past” and consequently “the words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby”(132). Gatsby’s dream is built upon the belief that Daisy has been equally in love with him for the past five years, so this information takes a cruel blow at his entire purpose.

Have you ever read The Great Gatsby, and if you have, have you ever analyzed it? Personally, I have specifically analyzed the female characters in The Great Gatsby, and the author's message to the readers about feminine power. Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan are the three main characters in The Great Gatsby and they make up the majority of the story. Fitzgerald’s, the author of The Great Gatsby, message to the readers about feminine power is that women are better off without a man. This is his point of view because he believes that a man will drag a woman down, and she won't be able to reach her full potential.