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Daisy's Role In The Great Gatsby

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The New Era Woman The Great Gatsby takes place in the 1920’s where there was a vast change in social life. Women were gaining more and more rights. They were able to voice their opinions on matters and people take hem more serious. As so, the role of the women in The Great Gatsby is seen completely exactly from what the new type of women was in the 1920’s. In this reading we find that Fitzgerald is using the main female characters to show this type of woman but, he still finds a way to incorporate how they are still stuck in their old ways. In the novel, Daisy is seen as this beautiful soul who is blind to all that is around her. Daisy has no sense in the area of common sense, or so she pretends not to. It is seen in many situations in the reading that Daisy will not stand her ground for what she truly wants but what she is being told is good for her. Daisy is easily persuaded by Tom and Gatsby. Even though she knows Tom does not love her to the full extent he should, she would still …show more content…

Myrtle is Tom’s mistress who happens to be married. Myrtle is selfish in her own ways by knowing that her husband struggles in his business but yet flaunts in the city with her nice belongings. Myrtle also has no consideration for her husband or Daisy’s feelings. Myrtle wants the money, the life, the man and the fame, but she does not understand she is taking from others by being so selfish. Myrtle is what in modern times would be known as a “golddigger”. Myrtle will show affection towards Tom in front of her husband without much care. It is unfair what she does and the way she carries herself but she is a woman of her own kind and does not care much what kind of horrendous damage she does to others. We, as the readers, want Myrtle to do the right thing, be a woman about the situation and leave Tom alone but, we realize she's not the only one that it would involve to say it is wrong what they are

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Tom’s clothes and shoes highlighted his status and wealth which is what made Myrtle interested in the first place, knowing that he could give her the life she had hoped to have with her husband. Myrtle married the man she loved but could not provide for her, which is why she reached out to Tom who could give her everything her husband couldn’t. Myrtle leans toward the man better dressed and therefore has more money

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George Wilson, a poor car mechanic had been lucky enough to marry a “stunning women” like Myrtle, and he refused to let her leave. He would have given up a part of his life if Myrtle had left, leaving him with the title of a selfish man. He didn’t care whether or not Myrtle was happy, he just wanted her with him at all times. Tom on the other hand had a different perspective on life, but he still was a selfish man. He had been associated with a numerous amount of affairs, and still felt as though it was Daisy’s fault for her wanting to leave him.

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Myrtle acts like she belongs with the upper class and talks to her husband in direspect as if she is apart of that upper class crowd “ Beat me ! throw me down and beat me, you dirty little coward” (Fitzgerald 137), after that Myrtle was hit with Daisys car that killed her. This is showing that Myrtle has no respect for her husband. Myrtle and Tom had a talk “ Sometime toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face, discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisys name…. Daisy!

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She comes off as very innocent and pure, and the narrator, Nick, made to point out her interesting voice. He says, “It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again”(Fitzgerald 33). Though Daisy is a very pure woman, she is also seen as an indecisive and careless person, along with someone who makes her decisions in the moment. As for the relationships between Daisy and the males in the book, Daisy is mostly treated with respect. In the beginning of the book, Daisy’s husband Tom

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