The Great Gatsby Women

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the Great Gatsby with no respect or acknowledgement to the gender, female. This book is filled with many examples of how women are treated as possessions, not people, they are made out to be evil and dependent people when they are not, and how men overpower women, causing them to feel dependent of a man. F. Scott can apparently write a best seller, but he however obviously has no respect for women. What’s more important in this world?
Let’s first learn a little about this gem of a man, F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was an American novelist whose short stories were mostly written around the Jazz Age. He is sometimes referred to as one of the greatest writers in the 20th century. (But once again is this actually important
First, women are constantly looked down upon in this book. “Though I was curious to see her, I had no desire to meet her….”I want you to meet my girl,” (Fitzgerald, 24) didn’t realize someone’s name could be ‘my girl.’ Oh wait. This quote demonstrates the resistance towards females throughout the entire novel. It also demonstrates the superiority of men in the book. Her name should have been used, or simply a “Ms.” But this would let women feel like they have an equal roles at all. “Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanan’s.” (Fitzgerald 15) This quote is actually comical to the average girl. The Tom Buchanan’s? As if Daisy is irrelevant in the marriage to have her own name be used for ONCE. This also shows that Daisy has let this man taken over her life. Daisy is no longer whom Gatsby fell in love with; she is now a Tom Buchanan. (Feminist Criticism Of The Great Gatsby English Literature
“In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago… and the day before the wedding he gave her a string of pearls at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.” (Fitzgerald 75) This quote is implying that women are beyond money-hungry and don’t actually care about the man that feeds this hungry. It also represents the idea that money buys happiness and love. The plot in general pretty much implies that women are so money hungry and anyone that can feed that hunger is the man for them. A man changes his entire life just to get this girl to fall in love with him. He does anything in his power to make the money he needs to ‘impress her’ or ‘win her back’ when in reality if he just treated her like a normal human and maybe asked her on a date he might’ve gotten her back easy. But men don’t give women that credit in this noel. Women only care about one thing, and one thing only. “She never loved you, do you hear?” he cried. “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me.”(Fitzgerald 130) This is another prime example of how Daisy’s main focus was all about the money. I mean I totally understand where she’s coming from though. What was she expected to do? Wait for the man she loved to become rich? Of course not. Us girls don’t have that kind of time. WRONG. Daisy is made out to look like a gold digger and really only care about the money not whether she