In “The Great Gatsby”‚ Fitzgerald illustrates how women‚ no matter what social status they are classified in‚ will still have to sacrifice and struggle to find a way to feed their desire for money. Daisy Buchanan‚ an upper class woman sacrifices her love for Jay Gatsby to keep her social standing and wealth. Jordan Baker‚ a wealthy woman gives up her own sexuality to gain fame and money which she thinks she deserves. And finally‚ Myrtle Wilson‚ a lower class housewife sells her own body for her desire
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CHAPTER 2 1. Why does the Valley of Ashes exist in this novel? Who is T. J. Eckleburg‚ and why is he here? -to show how there is an area of poverty‚ even though there are two luxurious cities surrounding this area called the Valley of Ashes -it may represent the image that may be hidden in the West and East Eggs -T. J. Eckleburg seems to be of somebody in the higher class -He is here to represent God; “look out of no face..from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a non-existent
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In “The Great Gatsby” by Scott Fitzgerald‚ Myrtle Wilson plays a role in not only her own death‚ but also the tragic demise of J. Gatsby. In chapter 2 she is described as “in her middle thirties and faintly stout” (29). Myrtle Wilson is the wife of degenerate garage owner George Wilson. She expresses her feelings for her decision on marrying George as “The only crazy I was was when I married him. I knew right away I made a mistake” (34-35). As a result‚ she bemoaned being married to her husband.
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others only dream about being them-people like Myrtle Wilson. Through Fitzgeralds choice of diction and detail‚ he conveys Myrtle as a low class dreamer‚ only desiring the acceptance from the upscale socialite friends of her boyfriend Tom; and Tom as a self-absorbed‚ wealthy‚ and power craving aristocrat. Tom Buchanan‚ the wealthy and self absorbed socialite‚ is a man whose main goal in life is to obtain complete and ultimate superiority. He does this by surrounding himself with his wealth and
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30 November 2007 Myrtle and Fitzgerald’s Wasteland Myrtle Wilson is Fitzgerald’s vessel for illustrating the modern wasteland. His conception of the wasteland as an unavoidable‚ vulgar part of the 1920s society is parallel to his characterization of Myrtle as an unavoidable‚ vulgar character that refuses to be ignored. He uses her to point out what he sees as the faults of modern society. Myrtle is materialistic‚ superficial‚ and stuck living in the physical wasteland referred to as "the valley
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Myrtle Wilson is a very important character in The Great Gatsby. Myrtle is‚ in her mid thirties and faintly stout but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can" (29). She is the wife of George Wilson‚ who buys and sells cars for a living. They do not have a lot of money and Myrtle is extremely unhappy. Myrtle is part of the lower class and does not have a lavish lifestyle like she wants. Myrtle never really loved George. She married him because she thought he was kind and a gentleman
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Overall how does Fitzgerald treat women in his novel? During the 1920s’ (also known as the Roaring 20s or the Jazz Age) women became more independent post-WW1‚ as they were finally given the right to vote. The 1920s’ was a decade of ‘the flapper‚’ the young women who exercised unprecedented freedom‚ having short hair‚ wearing relatively short skirts and applying make-up of a kind that had previously suggested immorality. Greatly increased mobility‚ in search of pleasure was a characteristic of a
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We get the feeling that Myrtle Wilson is not an especially smart woman. Strung along by Tom‚ Myrtle is convinced that he loves her and would leave his wife for her if he could. The whole bit about Daisy being a Catholic and not believing in divorce is‚ as Nick points out‚ not remotely true. Because she is unhappy in her marriage to George‚ Myrtle is drawn to Tom for certain specific reasons. George is passive‚ but Tom is controlling and authoritative. Myrtle puts up with Tom’s physical
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How does Fitzgerald present identity in ‘The Great Gatsby’ Use ‘The Bluest Eye’ to illuminate your answer. ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F.Scott Fitzgerald is set in America before the Great Depression‚ and focuses on the aristocrats of “West and East Egg”; Fitzgerald explores identity through the characters and their greed for money‚ the search of love and the unachievable American dream. The novel is named after a young man who in by pursuing the love of his life loses his identity. ‘The Bluest Eye’
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“The most iconic characters in literature are alienated by the changing world around them.” Discuss these ideas in relation to The Great Gatsby and Nineteen Eighty-Four. In ‘The Great Gatsby‚’ Fitzgerald frequently demonstrates how isolated his strongest characters are by the world around them through a variety of techniques. Both Nick and Gatsby are presented as being alienated from the world in some way and‚ as suggested by William Troy‚ both characters represent two forces in Fitzgerald’s own
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