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Daisy's Treatment Of Women In The Great Gatsby

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The 1920’s, also known as the roaring 20’s reasons being; dancing, parties, jazz, cheap alcohol, and freedom for women. In the novel the “The Great Gatsby” by F Scott Fitzgerald, he writes about two main women Daisy and Jordan who live in the 1920’s in New York, how they explore their new found freedom of this era. These three women display their newly acquired rights by the way they act, their aspirations, and the way they get treated by others. The way the women acted, spoke, and dressed in the 1920’s showed the booming effects of the 20’s. Daisy Buchan was a confident young women from the outside, she dressed and spoke like she had everything “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an …show more content…

Daisy gets treated like how she wants to be which is to be fought over. “The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it was so romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since." (75) This is referring to how men are fawning over her, and that Daisy is girl many men desire for. Jordan gets is treated the way she portrays herself which is dishonest and proud. "The bored haughty face that she turned to the world concealed something...and one day I found what it was...she left a borrowed car out in the rain with the top down and then lied about it...At her first big golf tournament there was a row that nearly reached the newspapers -- a suggestion that she had moved her ball from a bad lie in the semi-final round...The incident and the name had remained together in my mind." (57) When Jordan plays the semifinals people thought she cheated because of the way she acts. She is being treated like an equal to the men. Daisy and Jordan both have respect from others, in very different ways. The way they are treated is built up by the way the portray

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This is a normal thought for this time period as women in the 1920s had few rights and strict standards, but for Makowsky to say that Jordan and Daisy are limited by their gender when it is clearly stated in the book that Jordan is a troublemaker and a dishonest woman, is a stretch in my opinion. I do not think that her gender is the aspect that limited her fully, I think that her personality as a person has limited her in life aspects. This is shown whenever Nick reveals that she had cheated in her first-ever big golf tournament, as well as when he says she is incredibly dishonest. These comments were made when Nick first met her, showing the reader that Jordan is known around Long Island as dishonest. In conclusion, I think that Makowski is wrong when she states that Jordan and Daisy are limited by their gender.

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