What Is The Role Of The Flapper Girl In The Great Gatsby

In the story "The Great Gatsby" by Fitzgerald show the movement of the flapper girl evolving through the 1920's. The women's in the 1920's the role of women were that they had the right to vote, the number of women working increased by 25 cents, also they were allowed to smoke in public, dance new dances and so much more. Their behaviors changed a lot throughout the years they really didn't care what other people would think when they rebel for they want. They started dressing differently there dresses and skirts were much more shorter the women felt like they were finally feeling equal as the man. In the 1920's women started to become more independent they wanted to started earning their own money they want to do things for the,self. So Fitzgerald shoes what happened in the 1920's women into the book and showed that Jordan and daisy were in the story to represent a modern flapper girl. …show more content…
She was the average flapper girl by the way she acted towards people she is a girl who likes to party and have fun she is very harsh and self center she only think about herself and not others. This is similar to the events that happened in the 1920's a lot of the women in that area would protests in what to wear and how to act differently they wanted to treat the same as men. When I did research in who represented a flapper girl the the great gatsby is and the article called "the role of women in gastby" it talked that Jordan was the flapper girl in the novel and that she was a representation of a 1920's flapper girl. Jordan is very stuck up, snobby,and she has a shady reputation and she lied just to save her own