My research question, “how do the women in Fitzgerald’s fiction, specifically in the novels “The Beautiful and The Damned” and “The Great Gatsby”, relate to the stereotypical 1920’s woman in the authors perspective?” allows me to explore the female characters in two of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s popular novels, which I read throughout my summer vacation. Both of these novels have a similar setting and many of the characters in both plots are similar in several ways. I decided to investigate this area
Women in the Prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald is the best known as a chronicler of the adolescent 1920s – “a time delineated by the two world wars and the increasing emancipation of women that combined suffrage with the spectre of sexual liberation and the transit of American womanhood from rosy cheeked Gibson Girl to bob cut flapper” (Rasula 158). Fitzgerald, together with his wife Zelda Sayre, “identified, portrayed and popularized the flapper,” a female representative
Both authors present women in a way that reflects them as inferior to men, both visually and through the use of imagery and symbolism. A victim is a person harmed or injured mentally, physically and sexually as a result of ones actions. Due to their own backgrounds, Williams and Fitzgerald hold a negative perception of women. This therefore portrays, through the readers and audience’s eyes, women as victims as a result of the writers’ past experiences, which is reflected in the two texts. Williams’
During the 1920’s there was a revolution in the society for it was a very hectic era to live in compared to present day, however this was not the situation for women, since there was was greater impact of gender inequality and lack of power and justice women faced. For instance, near the end of chapter one, daisy is telling nick she has become very cynical about everything and when Nick changes the topic to her daughter, Daisy responds by telling how the nurse “told me it was a girl, and so I turned
During my 17 years of life i’ve had met so many different people that have somehow fit into the 1920’s women lifestyle. For example, my aunt she was a stay at home wife, she would go out with her husband everywhere, cook, clean and wouldn’t leave the house unless she was going to the market. However, some of my cousins from Mexico aren’t stay at home wifes. My cousins love to play with different guys just to get money out of them. Then, there is my sister who has a daughter and is independent, she
In the novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the setting is dated back into the 1920s where the role of women was actually not even a role at all because women barley even had the same rights as men, if anything they barely had any rights at all. Women didn’t wield very much power. They were supposed to be and do things that were seen as feminine and or a “woman’s job”. Such as cooking, cleaning, taking care of children, being stay at home mothers; because not many women actually worked back
Fitzgerald portrays women as selfish, self-absorbed and overall untrustworthy. Throughout “The Great Gatsby” and other stories written by Fitzgerald it is very evident that all women in the roaring twenties had a want and a desire to have the illusion of a perfect life and wanted to be seen as desirable subject that couldn’t be reached. His portrayal of women also shows how shallow society was and how it affected the way these women thought. Many women in “The Great Gatsby “were seen as incompetent
In Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, set in the roaring 1920s in New York and its nearby areas, the role of women had under men was making a drastic change, and it is shown by some of the women that appear in the book, such as Myrtle, Daisy and Jordan. The Great Gatsby, can be consider a questionable reestablishment of a male ruled society. The novel analyzes the search for happiness and wealth through the Jazz Age and characterizes deteriorated relationships, excellence, materialism, and unethical
October 2014 The Great Gatsby Essay Imagine living in a time period where the only thing women are worthy for are giving birth and taking care of children. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘great American novel’ takes on a different approach on women than modern times and the women in the novel create a different perspective as Fitzgerald identifies women as not only objects of mere pleasure, but also as women of a new era who will take on the world by storm. The role of women in the novel can
and great economic prosperities that allowed for Americans to finally have extra money to spend. With the eventual development of universal suffrage and the success of cars, the Roaring Twenties allowed for much inspiration. Experiencing this change in lifestyle first handedly, F. Scott Fitzgerald explores this era in many of his works. Through many of his characters, Fitzgerald portrays the newfound freedom that females attained during this era. In Fitzgerald's works, such as The Great Gatsby, The