This helped the Daytona Literary for Negro girls to teach both academic and practical skills and how to support themselves while they simultaneously strove towards better opportunities. She believed in “getting involved” ergo leaving marks for others to follow in her steps in getting involved. Mary instilled to exercise their right to vote. Mary proved that you have to have faith in order to make it. Mary’s faith proved that “without faith, nothing is possible, and with it nothing is impossible.” She had faith in having a better tomorrow because of all her accomplishments.
People began to support women’s rights, and that was a huge win for advocates. People such as John Stuart Mill were passionate advocates for women’s rights. In document 1, Mill begins by saying that traditionally, the vocation of a woman is the place of a wife and mother. He believes that one is supposed to consider of women in that way, but in truth, he recognizes that by denying women the same opportunities as men, the world is denied of the talents of women. He wrote The Subjection of Women with the help of his wife.
Tom, a wealthier man, holds a greater status and power than Wilson, a poorer man. The relationship between Myrtle and Tom is defined by this. Fitzgerald uses this relationship purposefully to emphasize how Tom’s relationships revolve around the power he gains from his socioeconomic
By going through this process however, she did make people uncomfortable because she did not fit the stereotypical slave prototype. The white people viewed slaves as sub-human, and a black woman who was mentally superior was not something they would have encountered before. Dana explains what Margaret, Tom’s wife, may have been feeling; “I don’t think Margaret likes educated slaves any better than her husband does…. He can barely read and write. And she’s not much better” (Butler 82).
One of the big achievements he made for the African-Americans was leading the civil rights march with Martin Luther King. The black people who suffered from segregation and discrimination viewed him as a leader and role model. He showed black people that they can accomplish what they want and push through their obstacles in life if they truly want to achieve something and make a difference. Sojourner Truth Being a female, black slave did not make Sojourner Truth’s life easy or simple. She was born into slavery, but later escaped with her daughter.
Happiness, one of the hardest words to define. To some people, they believe that they need a lot of money to be happy. While on the other hand, others think having many friends or being with your family is the way to happiness, not money. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, a man named Jay Gatsby believes that if he has a lot of money and living extravagantly that he is able to buy happiness which is his love for Daisy. And also Myrtle who demonstrates this by having an affair with Tom so he could buy everything she wants.
Myrtle Wilson is desperate to improve her life. She is not satisfied with her marriage, or with her low-class mechanic husband, George. This is evident when she says “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,” she said finally. “I thought he knew something about breeding, but he wasn’t fit to lick
The way she wants people to judge her, is how she judges others, through their appearances and not their heart. Therefore, Myrtle Wilson is a shallow woman who judges others by
All of their lives were ruined by a dream that they could not obtain. Wilson was a hardworking man who only wanted to please his wife. All he wanted was a happy marriage with his wife Myrtle. He obeys her orders without a blink of an eye. As seen on page 26, when Myrtle asks Wilson to fetch some chairs so she can plan a night out with Tom, Wilson merely responds with “‘oh sure’...and went toward the office mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls.” To attempt to fix his marriage, that he feels slipping away, he works diligently to raise enough money to move Myrtle west.
Many goals require work to be achieved. A typical rags to riches story often involves an individual eventually reaching success through hard work. Many women, like men, have worked to reach success. In Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Mr. Gatsby is a prime example of how working hard can lead to a rich and lavish lifestyle. He was a young boy born from poor farmer parents and through his hard work, was able to buy a grand home and car.