"I hope she'll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." Fitzgerald describes in the opening of the book what Nick wishes and hopes that Daisy will amount to. Fitzgerald does not hold a very high opinion of women throughout the entire novel and demonstrates this through his characters' actions. Particularly, Fitzgerald shows his dislike of the 1920's women in Jordan, Myrtle, and Daisy.
To begin with, Fitzgerald introduces Jordan as a nosy woman, however, Nick falls in love with her. She has a mysterious charm about her that attracts Nick to her, but she shares the similarities of the 1920's women. Jordan goes to parties and socializes, just like most other women of the 1920's did. Fitzgerald shows the reader and Nick that women of the 1920's can be snobs. Jordan is the perfect example of this be
Next, more of the typical 1920's flapper, Myrtle attends parties, social gatherings, smokes, and drinks. In addition, Myrtle's involvement in an inappropriate affair with a married man, Tom, does not display a good show of character either. Myrtle dresses in a risque fashion, the way that flappers of the 1920's dressed. Fitzgerald characterizes Myrtle by the way she speaks. Myrtle has a bad mouth and does not speak in a way that women should speak. Her flamboyant ways lead the reader to think of her as conceited. Myrtle's concern for herself shows that she pays little or no attention to her surroundings. Myrtle brings a lot of unwanted pressure and hate upon herself because of her actions. Gatsby shows through Myrtle how flappers of the 1920's got themselves into a lot of trouble by taking part in prohibition and drinking and having sex. Wo
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