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Gender Roles In The Great Gatsby

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Gender impacts the identity
Americans tend to believe that identity must be impacted by tons of things, especially the rigid social hierarchy, however, identity could also be impacted by one aspect, gender, it is obviously demonstrated in both The Great Gatsby and Little Women. Between 100 years since 1830s-1940s in Little Women and The Great Gatsby, though the society changed a lot by Industrial Revolution in US, the bias of gender did not change, in particular the females. Although both daisy and jo faced unfair treatments because of their gender in the US and changed their identity because of the dissatisfy of their marriage or self-achievements, Daisy wished to change her identity depending on Gatsby, she hoped him could help her to regain the passion of love and life, nevertheless, Jo changed herself by moving to the NY city to practice her writing skills and also met her husband, Mr. Bhaer, later. Both Daisy and Jo could reflect the issue faced by US female. …show more content…

Though the Women Rights Movement, which leaded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton started since 1848, female’s unfair treatments did not meliorated hugely, there are also traditional families desire not to change, Daisy was the one who deeply impacted by the strict rules for female who needs to tolerant her husband’s betrayal. “Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where, … ‘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’” (Fitzgerald, 16-17). In terms of the depressed words said by Daisy, it clearly demonstrated the difficulty of female to live in that time period, she had to tolerant his husband’s mistress and her vacuous daily life. Daisy was not respected by Tom, her husband, her beauty was seen as a symbol of status without freedom, and she had no

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