What Are The Roles Of Women In The Great Gatsby

Unequal, weak, and controlled have just been some of the many types of issues that women in 1920s American society have described their relationships with men as. In comparison to men in 1920s America, women were discriminated because of their sex. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author shows similarities between the female characters in the book to 1920s women in American society. Such restrictions that emphasized the similarities between the book to society at the time have been gender norms, class division, and marriage / love.
Social norms have been always shown bias against women pressuring them to be deprived of their freedom and importance in society. Maintained throughout the book, the idea of cheating for both genders have been very differently interpreted by society. For men, this norm has been accurately represented in the book as being acceptable and may even be considered normal, whereas, for women, it has been deemed wrong and unacceptable. This has been proven when Jordan gossiped to Nick that “Tom’s got some woman in New York,” and when Daisy would respond, “It couldn’t be helped!” (20). In the dialogue, it has shown that women at the time did not have the influence to prevent their men from cheating on them, even with …show more content…
An occurrence in the novel was when Gatsby shouted, “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me” (124). This was not a surprise that Daisy married Tom first due to the norms of the upper class society since, there was no need for the offspring of the wealth to work after school due to the continuous funding offered by parents if an approved marriage occurred. This made the role of Daisy along with many upper-class women of the 1920s to be a type of trophy wife and to keep the family