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    or even prizes.In the great gatsby it say “though i was curious to see her‚ i had no desire to meet her . But i did “i want to see my girl.” In the great great gatsby women were very inferior ‚ the quote shows resistance or hesitance towards women and just the overall superiority in men .The woman in the quote is referred to and “my girl” not by her name it was very common for women not to be addressed by their names .Daisy from the great gatsby was a big example in how women were treated. “Daisy

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    Female Great Gatsby Journal Though the Great Gatsby is a male dominated book‚ there are a few women who have great influences. Daisy Buchannan is the main female character‚ having romantic relations with both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Myrtle Wilson is a woman who is married to a hardworking man‚ but she remained unfaithful throughout the length of the novel. Lastly‚ Jordan Baker is probably the least mentioned woman but had an equally important role as the others. Fitzgerald used the development

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    Roles and Expectations of Women The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald exhibited the expectations forced upon both men and women in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby’s three main women faced the roles of their generation with distaste‚ yet all three of them ended up fitting the mold in some way. All the female characters from The Great Gatsby had their inner turmoil; making us contemplate the struggle of being the “ideal woman” while still retaining one’s personal individuality. Whether it is Tom’s ignorant

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    Misogyny Misogyny is the systematic hatred of women. Misogynistic portrayals in literature tend to present female characters as physically‚ mentally‚ emotionally‚ or morally deficient. The Great Gatsby has three major female characters: Daisy Buchanan‚ Jordan Baker‚ and Myrtle Wilson‚ all of whom display moral corruption and have a negative impact on the male characters of the novel. Although the male characters in the novel are depicted as complex individuals with varying degrees of morality

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    stupidity and making them seem like they are overly emotional‚ is all seen throughout the book. The way women are viewed now‚ all the way from the 1920’s have changed but not drastically. Yes women can vote and get high paying jobs etc‚ but still to this day women have less of an opportunity than men. There are situations in the 20’s that show examples of unfairness towards

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    in The Great Gatsby Some women during the 1920s lived the life with the role of a repressed woman. Repressed women did not make decisions for themselves; they relied solely on their husbands. Their husbands treated them as if they were objects without any feelings whatsoever. Repressed women showed no self respect‚ and they did not live their life in reality. These women’s emotions were suppressed as they appeared as if they had no care in the world. In Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Daisy

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    Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby‚ the changing and conflicting roles of women and their persistent mistreatment by males emphasizes the struggle for women’s equality in the 1920s. Fitzgerald uses the differences between Daisy and Jordan’s lifestyles to highlight the changing roles of women at the time. Although the female characters in the novel appear to progress toward independence‚ the persistent mistreatment by male characters stresses the lack of acceptance for women within upper-class society

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    Why the Great Gatsby isn’t very great and isn’t very Gatsby The choices made by director Baz Lurmann while creating the adaptation of The Great Gatsby make certain aspects a lot more obvious than the book‚ which is good for the audience‚ but ultimately make the movie version of Gatsby very different from the book version. But I’m not saying that it is bad for movies to stray from the books that they are adapting; it just gives the movie a different feeling than the book. Luhrmann’s choice in characters

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    How Accurately Are Women Portrayed in the Media Often times women in today’s society are forced to conform to a certain way of looking or dressing. This includes‚ race‚ age‚ style‚ hair and more. Typically it is expected that a women should be a young caucasian female with long hair to be considered attractive. But‚ what about when a female decides to dress in tighter or shorter clothes and embrace her body. Rather than being “sexy” and “classy‚” she is considered easy or trashy. This is a common

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    Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ “The Great Gatsby”‚ women are often portrayed as careless and dishonest flapper girls. Not only were the 1920s the beginning of a new political and social change‚ but it was also the new beginning of the ‘New Woman’. The ’New Woman’‚ was mainly portrayed as a Flapper‚ a more careless‚ younger “woman with bobbed hair and short skirts who drank‚ smoked” and embraced new fashions and new ideas that faced the traditional role of women (A&E Television Networks).

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