Great Gatsby Gender Roles Essay

After finishing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald readers are able to see that genders in the story play a huge roll in how your American experience is shaped. In Chapter 7 of the story, we get a lot of evidence that being a woman at this time meant that you were treated worse than men and not given as many opportunities. The quote from above is from the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby, Tom, Nick, Daisy, and Jordan are all in the same room and Gatsby gets the confidence to tell Tom that Daisy never truly loved him. There is a very aggressive tone given in this scene from Fitzgerald because Daisy is being put on the spot in front of two men that very angry at one another and are likely to break out into a fight screaming at each other. On top of being mad at each other in this scene the author
In this part of the quote, the foolish ideas represent Tom's relationship with Daisy. He only needs her to look good socially, but probably thinks of her as foolish most of the time. When Tom says I have, “made a fool of myself”(138) in the past he is referring to the affairs that he has had behind Daisy’s back. At the time in the story, Tom is showing little sympathy for Daisy because he has just found out that Gatsby might be having an affair with Daisy. On page 137 Tom says, "You're crazy! he exploded” when finding out about Gatsby’s claim. When Fitzgerald uses the word “exploded” to describe Tom’s dialogue it is clear that he is very upset with Daisy about going behind his back. In this scene, Tom is contradicting himself because he admits to having gone behind Daisy’s; back in the past but he acts like it is not a big deal compared to what Daisy has done; however, they are both quite similar. Later, towards the end of the scene when Gatsby tells Tom that he won’t be taking care of Daisy anymore he replies with, "She's not leaving me! Tom's words suddenly leaned down over