Power Of Women In The Great Gatsby

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The media is a wonderfully powerful force in our society. The media gives us everything from important world news to videos of cats. The media also gives us film and television, and while those are two of the most amazing inventions ever they have a major flaw. The media, especially film tends to struggle with female characters. This leads to women feeling like they have less power than men based on the ways they are portrayed in the media. “I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (Fitzgerald 20). Daisy Buchanan says this about her daughter in The Great Gatsby. She utters this sentence because she realizes the role that women are supposed to play in the world. If her daughter is

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