The Great Gatsby
"I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." Fitzgerald describes in the opening of the book what Nick wishes and hopes that Daisy will amount to. Fitzgerald does not hold a very high opinion of women throughout the entire novel and demonstrates this through his characters' actions. Particularly, Fitzgerald shows his dislike of the 1920's women in Jordan, Myrtle, and Daisy. To begin with, Fitzgerald introduces Jordan as a nosy woman, however, Nick falls in love with her. She has a mysterious charm about her that attracts Nick to her, but she shares the similarities of the 1920's women. Jordan goes to parties and socializes, just like most other women of the 1920's did. Fitzgerald shows the reader and Nick that women of the 1920's can be snobs. Jordan is the perfect example of this be
Next, more of the typical 1920's flapper, Myrtle attends parties, social gatherings, smokes, and drinks. Women were going through a revolutionary stage during the 1920's and Myrtle portrays a woman during the 1920's taking part in the whole scheme. She never really let anyone get to know her and only portrayed a fake image of herself, one she thought would get people to like her better. Myrtle dresses in a risque fashion, the way that flappers of the 1920's dressed. Overall, not the typical woman of the 1920's, Jordan exhibits a lot of traits that go along with women of the 1920's. Having experience as a movie star, this does not come unnatural to Daisy, however, it brings about Daisy's downfall in the end. Daisy winds up unhappy in life because of the path she has chosen to travel in life. Daisy, another extremely conceited, preoccupied person, who cares about absolutely nothing else besides herself. Her flamboyant ways lead the reader to think of her as conceited. Myrtle brings a lot of unwanted pressure and hate upon herself because of her actions. Fitzgerald characterizes Myrtle by the way she speaks. Daisy, Tom's wife, naive but clued-in, has an idea that Tom has taken a love interest in another woman. Jordan has a good job and she has shown that she can support herself without a man in her life. Though the women of the 1920's took part in some inappropriate happenings with prohibition and all, Jordan shows how women can also be established, successful people.
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