Chanel's Treatment Of Women In The Great Gatsby

In the beginning of the 1920s, a feeling of liberation was felt among women because of the new opportunities given to them through the women's suffrage movement. One of the women who grasp this opportunity was Gabrielle “Coco” Bonheur Chanel. Chanel used this time of liberation to uplift the women dominancy in the industrial aspect of America. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, “The Great Gatsby”, Fitzgerald demonstrates how the fashion world affected social class and the American Dream. Becoming a cultural and fashion icon, Chanel made advancements and created a legacy as a woman in the fashion. In the early 1900s, clothes were created from natural products such as wool and linen. These clothes covered every part of the body from the hot

On December 21, 1919, Capel died in a fatal accident driving back to Cannes. Chanel told her friend, Paul Morand "his death was a terrible blow to me. In losing Capel, I lost everything. What followed was not a life of happiness, I have to say" (Morand and Cameron). In 1920, Chris Greenhalgh, who wrote "COCO and IGOR", believes that during this time Chanel and Stravinsky were having a romantic relationship. Greenhalgh explains, Stravinsky and Chanel were going through a ceasing of creativity because Chanel recently lost Capel and the Russian-French chemist and perfumer, Ernest Beaux was not fulfilling her needs for her perfume, Chanel. Chanel spoke about her relationship with Stravinsky to Morand, however, Stravinsky's second wife, Vera rejected all allegations of the relationship. During this time, Chanel and Beaux were creating Chanel corporation. Most female fragrances created two scents for two groups of women, the first scent was for women who were respectable and the other scent was for

As shown here "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy... then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, ..."(Fitzgerald, 200). In the novel, Gatsby's efforts are misunderstood by the Buchanans due to Gatsby growing up in a lower social class that does not have the same opportunities as the Buchanans do. The Buchanans never had to work a day in their life because they were an old money, in contrast of Gatsby using illegal ways to reach his American Dream. In the same way, Chanel was born in a low social class and worked toward her American Dream, but she did not use illegal ways to attain it unlike