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Fitzgerald's Portrayal Of Women In The Great Gatsby

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, he portrays the characters Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson as shallow and materialistic, revealing that women, at the time, only cared about money. With how he wrote women in The Great Gatsby, people can only assume that he was a huge sexist. He makes women seem like they are money hungry objects that would do anything to get what they want. When you start to read about Daisy Buchanan, she seems like a good person that had the love of her life go off to war. While he's in the war, she gets tired of waiting so she marries some rich guy that her parents approve of, not knowing that if she just waited a little longer, he would've come back to her. However, as you continue reading, you start
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