The Ideal Woman In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is one of the great American classics that is required by all American Students to read. The idea behind the book is to show the American dream, ideals behind love, and gender roles, in the 1920’s. Since it’s publication in 1925 it has had it’s ironic yellow eyes overseeing the city’s glamorous overview. The book’s iconic art that every student knows, very few people comprehend what the cover art represents.Dark Blue background with womanly eyes overlooking what is thought to be New York City and softly shedding a tear, a beautiful image with unlimited possibilities for what it might mean. The cover art chosen for the novel is Daisy’s face, because the face shown is the ideal woman, represents hardship …show more content…
The face is very plain with no distinct features, and that makes the face it so ideal. Men throughout the novel are the main focus and are seen to be superior than women, this is why all women in the novel are seen as problematic,foolish,deceitful, and only cared about if they are beautiful. The are never in anyway wrote into the novel as being beautiful women, but it is written in a fashion that gives a feeling that any woman is beautiful, or at the very least, a tease with ‘charming laughter’ or even ‘sun--strained eyes’ Daisy said to Nick when asked about her daughter’s birth “ I hope she’ll be a fool...a beautiful little fool”(page 17) The idea at the time was men were the only ones that could sustain a family and that women needed to be the ideal female figure so they would be chosen to marry and live a successful life with a husband that let them do …show more content…
“You mean you don’t know?” said Miss Baker; known also by Jordan; honestly surprised. “I thought everybody knew,.. Why-- Tom’s got some woman in New York.” Daisy is not left out of Jordan’s statement that everyone knows about the affair. Later in the novel Daisy murders Tom’s lover, Myrtle, by accident or not she was hit and killed almost instantly. The eyes can be seen in greater detail as the place Daisy ran over Myrtle was in front of the billboard of the Doctor T.J. Eckleburg; much like the ‘eyes’ of God. The woman in the eyes can also be seen as Myrtle being thrown into the air as she was being thrown up from the air as Daisy smite her with Gatsby 's yellow car. Another way to view the eyes, is they are the ‘eye’s of God’ and they can not unsee Daisy’s acts of murder because everyone might think Gatsby was the one to murder Myrtle when in reality only God and Daisy know who really killed Myrtle. All these options or thoughts of what the eyes truly represent, all lead back to being