How Does Fitzgerald Present The Women In The Great Gatsby

Before the story is too far, there is already signs of Tom’s supercilious manner when Nick first meets up with him. Nick describes Tom like he “established dominance over his face and gave him the appearance of always leaning aggressively forward…”(11). This is the first of many signs that show Tom’s supercilious manner and how he acts like he is better than anyone else. After a short time, Tom shows another sign of irreverence. Nick describes Tom’s treatment of others when he states, “After an infinitesimal hesitation, he included Daisy”(18).

The Great Gatsby is well known for its many uses of symbolism. Like most other works of literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald use of symbolism comes in a wide variety of people objects and events. Fitzgerald’s incorporation of meal scenes always coincide with the emotional and narrative tone of the novel. More specifically, the events that transpire in each individual meal act to foreshadow individual character plot developments for the rest of the novel.

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 characters from the novel The Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald are used to portray the roles of men and women that lived in the time period of the 1920’s. Fitzgerald uses the fictional characters from to the novel to criticize this time period because he believed that the majority of the people that existed in the 1920’s were naïve and unworthy. The American society from the 1920’s lacked of freedom, moral value, and sincere happiness.

Before Nick arrives at the Buchannan estate, with his limited knowledge of Tom, he describes him as a man who has reached “such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.” Tom is established early on as restless and bored, with the threat of aggression spurred by the fact that “Tom would drift on forever seeking.” Tom exhibits this manner when he started to show Nick his estate by “turning me [him] around by one arm, he [Tom] moved a broad flat hand along the front vista.” Tom’s aggressive actions explicate his arrogance and narcissist

" when you open the door at the wrap of life, you aren't many things in… About wraps, don't answer them! Let them alone, have a padded door" (Fitzgerald, 90). The "illustrates the inconsistency in life, when you think you have it all figured out, you may be tempted to see what else is out there; and if so, one never knows what he will get. So, if you keep to yourself and stay feel because you're less likely to go astray. Fitzgerald story head and shoulders with an example of love in the irony in life and the challenges of gender roles in society in the 1900s as the picture through the main characters Marcia and Horace.

He is pleased with all that he has and is boastful about it. Tom has a strong, husky voice and appears quite arrogant and condescending when he speaks to people. During his dinner conversation, Tom speaks with racist tendencies 4. Who is Jordan Baker? What does Nick find appealing about

In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald uses tone, diction, syntax and imagery to voice Nick's perception of the world around him. In this passage his use of language is used repetitively to convey Jordan Baker, Daisy and Tom Buchanan's lives. On the outside it may look like they all are living a perfect and ideal life, however Fitzgerald's illuminating use of language highlights how far from perfect their lives truly are.

In the 1920’s, women were objectified in society, yet began to show signs of independence by striving for equality between genders. In this time period described as the Roaring Twenties, women began to use their voice as they desired to live their lives how they choose. Written in the middle of the 1920’s, F. Scott Fitzgerald, a renowned author, displayed his perception of women attempting to prove their worth through his new book. One of the protagonists in the novel, Daisy Buchanan, challenges the gender barriers and threatens to paint a new image for women by choosing love over wealth. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays the modern woman's inability to obtain independence as they were perceived as incapable of making their own decisions and relied on traditional gender roles to guide their lives in order to achieve prosperity.

Raise your hand if you’re female, keep it up if you think you have the IQ of a piece of paper, exercise your freedom through affairs, and encounter violence by your "superiors". No one. Fortunately, this isn’t our world, however, it is a reality for the women in F.Scott Fitzgerald’s bestseller, the Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald depicts a snapshot of the 1920s, a commentary on the limitations and treatment of women.

Equality, rights, birth control, and work ethics are all items that contribute to the women in the Roaring 20’s. Each woman has their own factors on how their lives were lived and showed how there were different roles and limited rights. The way they lived and acted had a vast role on the way they were portrayed in the past society. All the characters all do not stay true to their morals and values; they all cheat and lie all because of money.

During the roaring 20s, women were shown as a great influence on American culture. The American Dream was an idea that was mentioned a lot and wanted by many in the book, and women were a very important factor to this. Women were shown as one of the big factors needed to achieve the American dream and that you could have a big house, financially bloom and much more, but still not live the American Dream without a beautiful girl by your side. This is well shown by the female characters of the book where they use their influence to build show American Dream using their looks, status, and personality.

The American dream is a very devious thing; especially when people start to die because of it and it becomes less of a dream and more of a want that may never be fulfilled. This can become a very dangerous deed. Not only because it takes 1) Money 2) Marriage 3) Happy household and 4) kids but it takes devoting one’s life to living the American dream, even for women.

Nick longs to live the life of a millionaire, but for now the most he is able to do is to live next to one who represents his ideal life. Nick’s ideal world is one of money, and to him, Gatsby represents the life in which he thinks he would like to live. Nick demonstrates his admiration for Gatsby and his wish to be able to live that life when he says, “there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” bespeaking that Nick finds the wealthy to be “gorgeous” and that he represents everything Nick finds to be the ideal life. Nick finds wealth to be something fantastical and it is something he strives to attain for himself in order for him to live his ideal life. Nick believes himself to be in the pursuit of the ideal life in his new home in West Egg, and that to be wealthy is a life of ease in which there is little struggle, the ideal life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, illustrates most women in his novels in a incredibly negative light. He portrays them as dependent upon men, selfish, and completely amoral. Jay Gatsby is in love with the wealthy Mrs. Daisy Buchannan and tries to win her love by proving that he is wealthy. However, no matter how wealthy he becomes, or how many gigantic parties he throws, he is still never good enough for Daisy. The story ends in tragedy as Gatsby is killed and dies utterly alone. Fitzgerald's characterization of Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan in The Great Gatsby demonstrates women who are objectified by men and treated as their trophies, while also