Repressed Women In The Great Gatsby

The Significance of Daisy Buchanan's American Dream 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 Buchanan represents the repressed role of women in the American Dream. Daisy appears to be happy and content with her life. However, Nick states, "Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in her face," meaning that Daisy may not be showing her true
She is mesmerized by his wealth as she enters his dressing room saying, "They're such beautiful shirts," she sobbed, her voice muffled in the think folds. "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before" (Fitzgerald 92; ch.5). Daisy is overcome with two things that she has never experienced at the same time: wealth and love. Tom has the money but he does not treat her like a woman should be treated. Finally, she is in the presence of a man who has the money, but only cares about making her life complete. Person agrees and disagrees with this thought. "She is victim first of Tom Buchanan's "cruel" power, but then of Gatsby's increasingly depersonalized vision of her," he states (250). He agrees that she is very mistreated by Tom, but then later describes the way Gatsby mistreats her by saying "She becomes the unwitting "grail" in Gatsby's adolescent quest to remain ever-faithful to his seven-year-old conception of himself" (250). Person is trying to say that Gatsby does not truly love Daisy and that he is just using her to fuel his growing