“That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”-Daisy Buchanan. In “The Great Gatsby” novel, the author F.S. Fitzgerald perfectly describes a negative and stereotypical view of the different types of women during the 1920’s. Fitzgerald tried to describe the characters of women and their roles in society as a whole. The female characters Daisy, Myrtle and Jordan each display different roles as a woman within the story. Daisy is actually a victim of her environment which is influenced by gender, money, and status; her situation in society leads her to having no power or control over her own life and being dependent on a man whether it’s her husband, boyfriend. Myrtle also seeks her glamorous and fun dreams, but
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Also, objectifies women by implying that their actions are meaningless and unaccountable. Compares women to children, who are blameless due to their immaturity and lack of understanding, and represents the idea that women are unable to take care of themselves due to their ignorance. He also explained the fact that women were “not enough” to attend a party alone, and their need to be accompanied by a man by saying : “Benny McClenahan always arrived with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person, but hey so identical with one in another that it had inevitably seemed like they had been therefore”. Nick (Page 62). Women in were not recognized as individual human beings until 1950’s and men viewed them as “all the same”. Women recreate the exact copies of themselves in order to be desirable to men. On of these women, who would rely on a man and not feel as an individual being is the main female character, …show more content…
She acts childish in a way because she cannot fix her own mistakes and is not independent; Daisy runs away from her mistakes instead of facing and fixing them. (e.g. killing Myrtle). Daisy flirts with Gatsby and kisses him, pretending to be in love with him, but when things fall apart, she gets back to Tom to save her. Nick describes Daisy as careless;“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creature and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Page 179). Even Though Daisy is his cousin, but he defines Daisy as a person who smashes and ruins everything, and relies on Gatsby because money is what “keeps them together” in his viewpoint. Daisy is also represented as being both foolish and beautiful, and believes these are what makes her attracted to men; “I’m glad it’s a girl, And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be on this world. A beautiful little fool.” (Page 22). Daisy does not find her life as a lovely trophy wife, she hopes her daughter does not wish for greater things, wants her daughter to be just like her, a beautiful little fool. She has similarities with the woman whom her husband has an affair with,
Also, objectifies women by implying that their actions are meaningless and unaccountable. Compares women to children, who are blameless due to their immaturity and lack of understanding, and represents the idea that women are unable to take care of themselves due to their ignorance. He also explained the fact that women were “not enough” to attend a party alone, and their need to be accompanied by a man by saying : “Benny McClenahan always arrived with four girls. They were never quite the same ones in physical person, but hey so identical with one in another that it had inevitably seemed like they had been therefore”. Nick (Page 62). Women in were not recognized as individual human beings until 1950’s and men viewed them as “all the same”. Women recreate the exact copies of themselves in order to be desirable to men. On of these women, who would rely on a man and not feel as an individual being is the main female character, …show more content…
She acts childish in a way because she cannot fix her own mistakes and is not independent; Daisy runs away from her mistakes instead of facing and fixing them. (e.g. killing Myrtle). Daisy flirts with Gatsby and kisses him, pretending to be in love with him, but when things fall apart, she gets back to Tom to save her. Nick describes Daisy as careless;“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy they smashed up things and creature and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” (Page 179). Even Though Daisy is his cousin, but he defines Daisy as a person who smashes and ruins everything, and relies on Gatsby because money is what “keeps them together” in his viewpoint. Daisy is also represented as being both foolish and beautiful, and believes these are what makes her attracted to men; “I’m glad it’s a girl, And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be on this world. A beautiful little fool.” (Page 22). Daisy does not find her life as a lovely trophy wife, she hopes her daughter does not wish for greater things, wants her daughter to be just like her, a beautiful little fool. She has similarities with the woman whom her husband has an affair with,