Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson help to emphasise and demonstrate these growing freedoms of women and flapper style during the 1920’s in the novel. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy man due to his family’s past. Daisy symbolizes a flapper women as she is described as this the first time the narrator, Nick Carraway who is Daisy’s cousin, sees her. He commentates, “the only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon. They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house” (Fitzgerald 19). The other women in this quote is Jordan Baker, a professional champion golfer, who embodies the carelessness and independent characteristics of a flapper.
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There is an amoral aura about her, and her world revolves around herself and false material values. Jordan is distinguished from Daisy in her hard, unsentimental view of romance”(“Gatsby” 69). Daisy embodies the infidelity as well through her marriage with Tom since infidelity in commonly practiced during this era.“The picture of Daisy she presents is that of a terribly unhappy woman who must patiently endure her husband’s infidelities”(Baker 117). Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, who is also married to another man. In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle is described as this: “she was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.”(Fitzgerald 47). Daisy is fully aware of the affair due to Myrtle and Tom not trying to hide anything. Another main and important character in this novel is Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is an elite class member who entertains random people for parties in his mansion in West
There is an amoral aura about her, and her world revolves around herself and false material values. Jordan is distinguished from Daisy in her hard, unsentimental view of romance”(“Gatsby” 69). Daisy embodies the infidelity as well through her marriage with Tom since infidelity in commonly practiced during this era.“The picture of Daisy she presents is that of a terribly unhappy woman who must patiently endure her husband’s infidelities”(Baker 117). Tom is having an affair with Myrtle Wilson, who is also married to another man. In The Great Gatsby, Myrtle is described as this: “she was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.”(Fitzgerald 47). Daisy is fully aware of the affair due to Myrtle and Tom not trying to hide anything. Another main and important character in this novel is Jay Gatsby. Jay Gatsby is an elite class member who entertains random people for parties in his mansion in West