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Unpacks Gender Roles In The Great Gatsby

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In “The Great Gatsby” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald unpacks gender roles using indirect characterization to show how society forces women to fit into the boxes built for them by the men in their lives by putting all the female characters into stereotypes made to be exactly what the male characters wanted. The most obvious example of this is in the very first chapter of the book when Fitzgerald introduces the character Daisy Buchannan, who is the stereotypical “golden girl”. He presents her in a very childlike manner, having her wear a big fluffy dress that is similar to a wedding dress which symbolizes her being pristine and shows she is upper class. Fitzgerald then has the first piece of dialogue from her being that she is simply “paralyzed with
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