The overall effect of the 1920’s severely caused possession over the opposite gender which lead to destruction. Throughout the novel this theme is played through our main characters: Tom, Myrtle, and Daisy. With these character, the reader can really see women’s lower rank at the time, as well as each characters possessive natures. These natures take shape due to these women not being able to take control or the men fearing they will. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates the role of women in the 1920’s through Tom and Myrtle’s possessive and ultimately destructive natures.
To begin, Tom and Myrtle’s affair proves truthful to the lack of respect for women in the 1920’s. This lack of respect is due to the fact that Myrtle’s possessiveness over Tom causes his …show more content…
Myrtle often becomes jealous of Daisy and screams, “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-’Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 37). Myrtle becomes jealous of Daisy and possessive over Tom because she wants the grand, rich life with Tom. However, Tom wants to keep both women under his thumb and does not like the fact that she, a lower class women, is taking his wife’s name in vain. Tom is able to play both of these women because of their substandard role in society. Due to women’s role in society during the 1920’s, they could be treated as objects rather than actual people. With two women wrapped around his finger, Tom is the prime example of the mistreatment of women. Due to Tom’s upper class status and advantages as a male during this time, he is
To begin, Tom and Myrtle’s affair proves truthful to the lack of respect for women in the 1920’s. This lack of respect is due to the fact that Myrtle’s possessiveness over Tom causes his …show more content…
Myrtle often becomes jealous of Daisy and screams, “‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouted Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai-’Making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 37). Myrtle becomes jealous of Daisy and possessive over Tom because she wants the grand, rich life with Tom. However, Tom wants to keep both women under his thumb and does not like the fact that she, a lower class women, is taking his wife’s name in vain. Tom is able to play both of these women because of their substandard role in society. Due to women’s role in society during the 1920’s, they could be treated as objects rather than actual people. With two women wrapped around his finger, Tom is the prime example of the mistreatment of women. Due to Tom’s upper class status and advantages as a male during this time, he is