Roaring Flappers In The Great Gatsby

Roaring Flappers Women were not, they were the complete opposite from men they had no rights and were no able to do nothing in society (Louise Benner).Fitzgerald wrote e a book named the Great Gatsby and one of the main female characters was Daisy, he demonstrated how women acted and were treated in the 1920 's. Women were not allowed to inherit their family money or land. Which led to the conclusion to why they always married into a wealthy family. Women would be considered absolutely nothing without a man or husband in their lives. Then women started to realize that they wanted to be equal with men and have the same opportunities in society and life. Throughout this whole time period Women began to change their attitudes and image towards …show more content…
In the beginning of the novel she is this poor and defenseless housewife that is dominated by her husband, Tom. She is unhappy and miserable with the life she lives. But she doesn 't show the part of being a good mother either, which is the typical image of a good housewife in the 1920 's. She is sad resulting that she gave birth to a baby girl. She informs Nick that she hopes that she will be " a little fool" ( Fitzgerald 17) because that 's all women can be in the world. But throughout the end of the book she changes, she does more things that women didn 't usually did. She ends up challenging the image of a "good women" that everyone in society is familiar with. She starts smoking cigarettes but to the only way women got away with that was by attaching a cigarette holder. (Louise Benner). This way they would be able to look sophisticated with a cigarette in their hand and that was their way of evolving in life as a different …show more content…
To show that she works to show this she works as a pro golfer which would be considered a "man 's sport". Provided that she doesn 't care about anyone about anyone but herself, she is really self-centered. She makes that clear when she says "i hate careless people" ( Fitzgerald 58 ) when conversing to Nick. She is also suspicious of everything and everyone. She is known for knowing everything about everyone so when Nick tells her about Gatsby about how he is a Oxford man, she does not believe him, which makes her a spectacle person. Fitzgerald makes her the most different from any of the other girls in the novel. She is portrayed as a strong and single woman unlike Myrtle and Daisy. Myrtle is also a different type of