Rags to Riches
Money and fame drove women in the 1920s, making them desperate and capable of doing anything possible to achieve their ambitions. The needy and corrupt lives of women as well as the effect their actions have on people close to them are shown in both the novel, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald and the film Chicago by Rob Marshall. Women in the 1920s chose the life they lived, whether it consisted of independence or being dependent. When women are attached to men they seem powerless and inadequate to make their own decisions. However, when they don’t, they are capable of maintaining themselves on their own. Women did not try to succeed on their own and take on jobs to make themselves independent but instead married a wealthy man who was not only sustainable for their desires, but also to turn them from rags to riches.
Money controlled women in the 1920s and corrupted society with the want of lavish material items and made women do anything possible to achieve the life they wanted moreover, thought they needed. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan doesn't marry her first love, Jay Gatsby, because he does not have the money to comply to her demands and instead marries Tom Buchanan who is old money. Daisy not marrying Gatsby, who she truly loves, …show more content…
Which leads to Tom having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the Valley of Ashes. It is clear that the purpose of the affair is mainly for money on Myrtle’s side and Tom’s attraction to her is mostly sexual. Tom doesn’t see Myrtle as anything other than someone to go to for sexual pleasure until later through the story when she gets killed. However, Tom expresses no true emotion towards his mistress when he discovers her dead because he now has to fight for Daisy due to Gatsby trying to reconcile their
Money and fame drove women in the 1920s, making them desperate and capable of doing anything possible to achieve their ambitions. The needy and corrupt lives of women as well as the effect their actions have on people close to them are shown in both the novel, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald and the film Chicago by Rob Marshall. Women in the 1920s chose the life they lived, whether it consisted of independence or being dependent. When women are attached to men they seem powerless and inadequate to make their own decisions. However, when they don’t, they are capable of maintaining themselves on their own. Women did not try to succeed on their own and take on jobs to make themselves independent but instead married a wealthy man who was not only sustainable for their desires, but also to turn them from rags to riches.
Money controlled women in the 1920s and corrupted society with the want of lavish material items and made women do anything possible to achieve the life they wanted moreover, thought they needed. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan doesn't marry her first love, Jay Gatsby, because he does not have the money to comply to her demands and instead marries Tom Buchanan who is old money. Daisy not marrying Gatsby, who she truly loves, …show more content…
Which leads to Tom having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the Valley of Ashes. It is clear that the purpose of the affair is mainly for money on Myrtle’s side and Tom’s attraction to her is mostly sexual. Tom doesn’t see Myrtle as anything other than someone to go to for sexual pleasure until later through the story when she gets killed. However, Tom expresses no true emotion towards his mistress when he discovers her dead because he now has to fight for Daisy due to Gatsby trying to reconcile their