F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a classic American novel that incorporates both marxist and feminist views in order to demonstrate the ways that some of the characters in the story challenged the status quo of society in the 1920’s. The female characters in the novel manipulated their male counterparts in that they started to break away from the norm of being escorted places and doing more and more things that were previously male dominated activities. The novel’s dramatic situation is a story based on a real-life murder between two lovers that were married to other people. This inspired Fitzgerald to write the best-selling novel known today.
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson is a minor character who comes from an area that would be known as the slums. Her and her husband, George Wilson, are not very wealthy people but they get by on what they have. According to Mangum, …show more content…
Mangum notes that “when the reader is first introduced to Gatsby he is at the height of his success and is known for throwing lavish parties and driving around in luxury cars.” (Mangum.) His money and powers him In certain aspects such as his many connections with the law and other groups that help him to get out of situations. This leads Nick to believe that Gatsby is involved in gang activity when he notices all of Gatsby 's mysterious phone calls to unknown identities at strange hours. This aspect also disempowers him, as mentioned by Mangum, in the sense that even with all of the things he has accomplished in his life and the life that he built to impress the love of his life, he still cannot manage to win the heart of the Mrs. Daisy Fay. She chooses to stay with her husband Tom even though he has been untrue to her. She does it to put on a façade for society to show the perfect family that she has created.”
In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Myrtle Wilson is a minor character who comes from an area that would be known as the slums. Her and her husband, George Wilson, are not very wealthy people but they get by on what they have. According to Mangum, …show more content…
Mangum notes that “when the reader is first introduced to Gatsby he is at the height of his success and is known for throwing lavish parties and driving around in luxury cars.” (Mangum.) His money and powers him In certain aspects such as his many connections with the law and other groups that help him to get out of situations. This leads Nick to believe that Gatsby is involved in gang activity when he notices all of Gatsby 's mysterious phone calls to unknown identities at strange hours. This aspect also disempowers him, as mentioned by Mangum, in the sense that even with all of the things he has accomplished in his life and the life that he built to impress the love of his life, he still cannot manage to win the heart of the Mrs. Daisy Fay. She chooses to stay with her husband Tom even though he has been untrue to her. She does it to put on a façade for society to show the perfect family that she has created.”