Women In The Great Gatsby

During “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald has 3 complex female characters that all have different characteristics and effect the story in different ways. There is the Golden Girl, the Independent Women, and the Gold Digger. Daisy Buchanan is the Golden Girl. She was born into money and has always had an expensive lifestyle. She would not be able to live without money. Jordan Baker is the Independent women. She has earned her own money being an athlete, she doesn’t need to have a man in her life to support her. She supports herself. And Myrtle Wilson, George Wilson’s wife and Tom Buchanan’s mistress, is the Gold Digger. I’m sure she tells herself that she loves Tom for who he is not because of his money, but in reality she fell in love with Toms

She was a charming, sweet, pleasant girl, and Gatsby knew he would never find that in another women. Daisy was so wealthy and so well raised that it was so amazing to Gatsby. She was the perfect girl, the “Golden Girl” in his eyes.
“Daisy's voice was full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood it before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it high in a white palace the king's daughter, the golden girl…” Daisy’s voice was “full of money”. This gives her that “Golden Girl” status. She is wealthy and speaks with a certain tone that convinces people that is a successful person in life and it tells everyone how wealthy she is. That was what men wanted from women in the 1920s. They wanted a Daisy, they wanted a Golden Girl. “Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from code would be thought impossible.” Jordan does not want to bring any suspicion drawn to her so she avoids men that would be suspicious of her or that would be more “powerful” than her. She does not follow gender norms and wants to be

I knew right away I made a mistake. He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never even told me about it, and the man came after it one day when he was out. ‘oh, is that your suit?’ I said. ‘this is the first I ever heard about it.’ But I gave it to him and then I lay down and cried to beat the band all afternoon.” Myrtle judges men on how much money they have. She never wants to be poor and wants to be able to buy what she wants. So she is looking for a man who can pay for her wants and needs. When she married George she knew he wasn’t rich but she didn’t realize that he was that poor that he couldn’t even afford a suit for his wedding. That one situation of George not being able to afford a suit ruin her vision of George for the rest of their message so she ended up looking for a new man that could feed her lifestyle, and that man was