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Women's Rights In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals everything about the 20s and what life was like. There were working class who lived outside the city, flappers and mostly single men and women were in the city, and new and old money had moved to suburbs known as west egg and east egg. Women are either married or working. Everything was evolving in the 20s, and so were women. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the criticism of women's rights in The Great Gatsby reflects our society’s current struggles with equality, proving that Fitzgerald’s criticism is still relevant. One main criticism in The Great Gatsby is women rights, which is shown by Daisy. This is important because it reveals how married women in the 1920s weren’t their own self; everything they had was their husbands and if you weren’t married then you were seen as a spinster. …show more content…

Someone much different from Daisy was her best friend, who was unmarried and a professional golfer. She represents “free” or “spinster” women in the 20s, women got the right to vote making them feel more free but for some their whole life changed and started doing things differently. They cut their hair shorter, wore different clothes, and like Jordan, were unmarried and weren;t that interested in getting married. On page Jordan says "You threw me over on the

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