Women In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“- That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”( Fitzgerald(21). In F. Scott Fitzgerald book, The Great Gatsby, starts in the nineteen fifties with a man named Nick Carraway moving to a new side of town. Revisits family members and starts to introduce himself to new people, such as woman. The main women that Nick talks about are Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. The 20’s were known to be a change for women how they looked, acted, and fought for equal rights. Three of these characters show different types of personalities on what women were like in the book. Daisy never knows what she wants, Jordan loves to hear/talk about gossip, and Myrtle doesn’t consider anyone else’s feeling other than …show more content…
She is know to be very talkative with what she wants and seems to have occasional mood swings. For example, in the book Daisy is talking to nick about what has been going and is having wonderful time, until the phone rings for Tom, which turns out to be his mistress. This brings her down and discusses to tom the night she was pregnant and was left alone. “ It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about-things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was god knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling and asked the nurse right away if it was a boy or a girl”(fitzgerald(21). This quote shows how she has always felt alone and needed someone there for her. She later finds her first love Jay Gatsby again and tries to rekindle their love. Then tell tom how she had never loved him only gatsby, but changes her statement by saying she loved tom at first. “oh , you want too much!” she cried to gatsby. “I love you now-isn’t that enough? I can’t help what’s past.” she began to sob helplessly. “I did love him once-but i loved you too.”(fitzgerald (140). Daisy can’t pick who she won’t to be with and doesn’t see the chaos she is

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