Daniel Lopez
English 11
Period 5 Oct 2017
Fitzgerald’s Gender Roles In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, he portrays the characters Daisy and Jordan as fake and harsh revealing that these women are portrayed differently in this novel.
Fitzgerald portrays daisy as a gold digger. She is after materialistic things such as money, clothes, jewelry, etc. She only married Tom because he is very wealthy. Gatsby was poor at the time and she couldn’t wait for him anymore. Tom cheats on daisy but she just puts on an act so that he doesn’t know she knows. In the novel she says “ I’m glad it’s a girl and I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” She says this because she knows how woman are portrayed in the eyes of men. Woman were to ignore what going on around them and to act like they don’t know anything. This quote relates to Daisy because she pretends not to know about her husband’s affair because of his wealth. When she sees Gatsby with lots of wealth she starts to fall for him because he’s gotten rich over the years and she gets confused trying to pick tom or gatsby. She is careless because in Chapter 7 she …show more content…
She represents a new type of woman. She is also very independent and doesn’t need a man in her life to take care of her or give her materialistic things. She is kinda boyish because she plays professional golf which makes her very different than Myrtle and Daisy. She is not very honest and tends to bend the truth as Nick notices. She often cheats during her golf tournaments. She likes to play with men’s emotions and she is not interested in a relationship. She loves getting attention from men and enjoys large parties such as Gatsby’s parties. She is only herself around Nick. She probably is attracted to Nick because she can be herself around him and she can be open. She looks down on people who aren’t as rich as her and she is
English 11
Period 5 Oct 2017
Fitzgerald’s Gender Roles In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, he portrays the characters Daisy and Jordan as fake and harsh revealing that these women are portrayed differently in this novel.
Fitzgerald portrays daisy as a gold digger. She is after materialistic things such as money, clothes, jewelry, etc. She only married Tom because he is very wealthy. Gatsby was poor at the time and she couldn’t wait for him anymore. Tom cheats on daisy but she just puts on an act so that he doesn’t know she knows. In the novel she says “ I’m glad it’s a girl and I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” She says this because she knows how woman are portrayed in the eyes of men. Woman were to ignore what going on around them and to act like they don’t know anything. This quote relates to Daisy because she pretends not to know about her husband’s affair because of his wealth. When she sees Gatsby with lots of wealth she starts to fall for him because he’s gotten rich over the years and she gets confused trying to pick tom or gatsby. She is careless because in Chapter 7 she …show more content…
She represents a new type of woman. She is also very independent and doesn’t need a man in her life to take care of her or give her materialistic things. She is kinda boyish because she plays professional golf which makes her very different than Myrtle and Daisy. She is not very honest and tends to bend the truth as Nick notices. She often cheats during her golf tournaments. She likes to play with men’s emotions and she is not interested in a relationship. She loves getting attention from men and enjoys large parties such as Gatsby’s parties. She is only herself around Nick. She probably is attracted to Nick because she can be herself around him and she can be open. She looks down on people who aren’t as rich as her and she is