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. In this novel, Daisy is the most abused by male characters. She is objectified, cheated on by her husband, and probably physically abused by him, based on what he did to Myrtle. When Daisy gets back together with Gatsby, he says, “It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy-- it increased her value in his eyes.” (page 156). This quote shows how men objectify Daisy just because …show more content…
She is such a stereotypical female character in a negative way. Fitzgerald portrays her as such a pure, pretty, proper character, but she does not really have a personality. She is stereotypically a bad driver, obviously, because she is a woman, but when it comes to her personality she’s just another cookie cutter woman in the 1920’s. Males overlook her because she is a celebrity and obviously she can’t use her head, but they trust her for as long as they still find her interesting. Once they decide that she does not have much of a personality, they abandon her and find someone better. Even Nick, who is an extremely pure and honest character in the novel decides after a while that she is not interesting to him. Fitzgerald also gives Jordan negative attributes, like being a liar, cheater, arrogant, and she does not think the rules apply to her. None of these are positive things that someone strives to be, and Jordan is all of these things. Nonetheless, Jordan Baker is treated like a queen compared to Myrtle
Despite Daisy’s clear nonchalance towards Gatsby’s feelings Gatsby still felt as if Daisy loved him, why else would he take the blame for something so massive, he wouldn’t have done that for just a friend. Daisy continues to deceive Gatsby because she knows that he will do whatever she wants, This connects to the entire book because Daisy is an overall deceitful woman, and the book as a whole portrays woman as unfaithful, such as Myrtle who cheats on her husband to move up in social
Ginevra King, Zelda Syra, and Edith Cummings influenced Fitzgerald’s view of the world and women throughout his life. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald emphasizes growing freedoms
In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, wealth and class as been a major motif throughout the whole book. The motif of wealth and class has been used to characterize characters, such as Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Myrtle and George Wilson, Jay Gatsby, and many more. This motif also ties into the symbolism of colors and the motif of corruption. F. Scott Fitzgerald begins to characterizes Tom Buchanan in the first chapter. “The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold and wide open to the warm, windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch,” (Fitzgerald 6).
She is known as a lower class women and Tom keeps her identity from everyone except Nick. As men see her as only a poor mechanics wife they look down upon her. This is probably why she is so quick to want Tom to leave Daisy and be with her, though that will never happen. When she sees Gatsby car coming she believes Tom is still driving it, her love for him proves through when she runs into the street, ending fatally. She gets treated more like property than a person like a lot of women in that day and age.
Throughout her life, Daisy’s beauty continually catches the attention of men as Gatsby, one of her love interests, describes Daisy “keeping half a dozen dates a day with a half a dozen men” well after Gatsby’s entrance into the war (151). Daisy came from a wealthy family that constantly pressured
Throughout the novel “ The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald it becomes more and more evident that Daisy is the biggest user and manipulator than the rest of the characters. Daisy is the type of character who seems and feigns innocence but this is to derail and confuse people of who she really is as a person. Not only does she use and string Gatsby along but she does the same with Tom. Daisy seems to be in control in situations when it may seem very unlikely that she is.
Although, after reading Fitzgerald's piece of literature, you find that she fluctuates from shallow and deep to feeling and unfeeling. There is not enough change occurring to consider her a round character, however she is not entirely
In the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the majority of the characters are either dishonest, chasing hollow dreams, or plain ignorant. Fitzgerald flaunts the flaws of these characters regularly. Tom Buchanan is a constant example of dishonesty, due to his reoccurring affair with Myrtle Wilson. Although she does not believe it true, Daisy is one of the most ignorant characters.
Daisy believes that a woman should be, “...a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 17). She learns that in order to be “happy”, she needs to be what everyone else wants. Therefore she puts on an act and fools everyone else into thinking that she lives the perfect life, although, in reality, she is not. When she reconciles with Gatsby, she is in awe of how much wealth he has. "They're such beautiful shirts, she sobbed, her muffled in the folds.
In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.
(Fitzgerald 35). If Myrtle loved Wilson, she would not have been this upset about a tux he borrowed. Myrtle also changes into three different dresses throughout the day to show her “extravagant wardrobe” and to impress Tom. She denies compliments to make herself look superior to others. For example, “ ‘I like your dress’, remarked Mrs. McKee, ‘I think it’s adorable.’
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, has several women with strong characteristics. Such as Myrtle, Daisy, Jordan, Catherine, and Mrs. McKee, But the leading women were Myrtle, Daisy, and Jordan. Daisy, Myrtle, and Jordan have a great deal of differences and similarities. The two ways they are different is how they interact with men and how they are looked upon by men.
There are many reasons why Nick would like or dislike each one of these stereotyped woman. Daisy Buchanan, Myrtle Wilson, and Jordan Baker are examples of the key differences in each stereotyped women. Daisy Buchanan is Nick Carraway’s cousin, and Tom Buchanan’s wife. Out of the three stereotypes, Daisy Buchanan is a “golden girl”, for the reason that he has a powerful amount of money, and she talks and acts like
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald explains how Gatsby sees Daisy as his ideal woman. Gatsby creates an image of Daisy in his mind of which he believes is perfect and ideal. Gatsby pictures her as flawless and absolute, which she is not. Fitzgerald discusses that Gatsby deeply believes that Daisy is the ideal woman for him even though she falls short of his dreams of being that. Even though Daisy cannot be the woman Gatsby wants her to be he still does not give up on her.
“Social oppression is a concept that describes a relationship of dominance and subordination between categories of people in which one benefits from the systematic abuse, exploitation, and injustice directed toward the other.” This quote, stated by Ashley Crossman on Thoughtco, perfectly describes what oppression is especially from a feminist point of view. As Britannica stated, Feminism is “the belief in the social, economic, and political equality of the sexes.” In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there are many relationships. However, none of them are based on love and in most of the relationship, the women are also being oppressed.