Nick's Portrayal Of Women In The Great Gatsby

And I hope she’ll be a fool, that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful fool" (Fitzgerald 22). Daisy is basically explaining that there are limited possibilities for women. The baby has to be beautiful in order to be successful and have happiness. Back in the 1920’s, women only married solely for the money, not necessarily for the love. Daisy thought she married Tom out of love, but realized it was all about the wealth.

Daisy is comfortable with the society she grew up with and marries someone who has the same background as she. Unfortunately, the world that Tom and Daisy belong to is one where you are constantly worried about "how you appear to others. " Most of your decisions are based on prestige and wealth and being accepted by the upper class of society. In Daisy's case, she is even willing to allow her husband to cheat on her because if she loses him, she also loses her social standing and the wealth that allows her to live the lifestyle she is accustomed to.

She also implies that women have a hard role to play in life and it is better to take the easy way out. Daisy wants her daughter to be ignorant because if her daughter is unintelligent she won’t know how the real world works and that there are other men to marry than just men like Tom. 5 “She never loved you, do you hear?” he cried “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart, she never loved anyone except me!”- (Fitzgerald 151).

Daisy also admits, "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). Daisy hopes her daughter, Poppy, will not get hurt like she has from a man. She hopes her daughter is oblivious to the surrounding men because she believes that’s

Daisy is not a fool herself, but a social experiment. The older generation values maturity, while the younger generation values recklessness and young love. Daisy’s comment is somewhat sarcastic: while she refers to the social values of the decade, “I hope she’ll be a fool--that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” (21). She seems to comments on that a girl can have more fun if she is beautiful and stupid. Daisy herself, often tries to act in such a way.

Daisy, is one of the main females in the story. From the beginning we see that she relies on men for her happiness and material success. She's married to one wealthy man while being courted by another. This supports the idea that women need to always rely on men.

Daisy is married to a man by the name of Tom Buchanan, a wealthy and rather rude man. As Nick first meets Daisy and her small family, he takes notes of their upscale lifestyle and housing. Throughout meeting his cousin, Nick constantly admires and takes notes of his cousins perplexing beauty. Perhaps Daisy also knows the extent of her charming and gorgeous self and those attributes could have

Tom and Daisy’s relationship was once jubilant and affectionate but over time they grew apart, resulting in their affairs. F. Scott Fitzgerald uses Tom and Daisy’s relationship to illustrate the hypocrisy of men in the

Daisy is treated many different ways throughout the novel. Although she treats men similarly . At the beginning of the story we find out that that Daisy is not being treated well, Tom has been cheating on her with Myrtle’’Tom’s got some woman in New York’’(p15 fitzgerald),Jordan tells Nick this when Tom got a telephone call from that woman. Moreover, when Tom and Gatsby were arguing in the apartment they treated her like a possession or an item. On the other hand, Gatsby does everything for her because she is his everything.

Myrtle is accustomed to living an underprivileged life where feminine power engulfs her, but Tom is too egotistical to allow Myrtle to speak with such authority to him. Similarly, Gatsby’s need for assurance from Daisy pressures her into revealing to Tom that she never loved him (Fitzgerald 132). Deep down, Daisy knows that she truly did love Tom once, but Gatsby’s assertiveness and persistence drives her over the edge to telling Tom that what the two of them shared meant nothing to her. Daisy’s attribute of being a pushover is revealed immensely because she refuses to stand up for herself. Daisy is used to enabling Tom to constantly control all aspects of her life, and that leaves her powerless in society.

Daisy is blind to her own daughter, the idea of being able to have the capability to create life is withdrawn from the eyes of Daisy and what most people would consider a blessing to have: “Shes asleep. She's three years old. Haven't you ever seen her?” “Never. ”(Fitzgerald 10) Daisy is cynical and caught up in the thought of money she is oblivious to her own offspring as they proceed to talk about bonds.

According to Daisy, women are better off being naive and docile. She implies that by conforming to the social values of her era, rather than challenging them, women can enjoy their lives and be happy. 2. Syntax Daisy asserts, “Do you always watch for the longest day of the year at then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it” (Fitzgerald 11).

Daisy is shown through her expensive house, rich husband, and luxurious attire, to help mask her ultimately unhappy identity. She has had so many opulent experiences due to marrying Tom, yet she feels so empty and wanting more with her life: “’You see I think everything’s terrible anyhow’ she went on in a convinced way…‘I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything’” (Fitzgerald 17). Daisy’s true character is revealed shortly in the story when she tells Nick how she has seen and done everything, yet feels empty and that everything is terrible. Daisy believes that money can buy happiness, which is why she has to purchase everything to fill a potential void in her life.

In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Daisy is portrayed as a modern woman; she is sophisticated, careless and beautifully shallow. Daisy knows who she is, and what it takes for her to be able to keep the lifestyle she grew up in, and this adds to her carelessness and her feigned interest in life. In all, Daisy is a woman who will not sacrifice material desires or comfort for love or for others, and her character is politely cruel in this way. Daisy’s main strength, which buoyed her throughout her youth and when she was in Louisville, is her ability to know what was expected of her and feign cluelessness.

Fitzgerald depicts the women of the novel as deceitful, sexual beings that are naturally subordinate to men through Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle. Daisy exemplifies the naturally inferior role of women relying on the wealth of men in their lives to take care of them. When Daisy talks about her daughter she claims, “a fool–that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”(21) establishing women’s subordinate role in which they are ignorant to the affairs of their husbands and expected to rely on their beauty to carry them through life. When Daisy is accused of infidelity with Gatsby in the hotel, Gatsby claims that Daisy is attracted to men of wealth and, “only married [Tom] because [Gatsby] was poor and she was tired of waiting for [him]”(137).