Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And The Chicago Musical

Taking it back to the 1920’s in The Great Gatsby and The Chicago Musical where everything was so different throughout the era. In the 1920’s women used their appearance to gain fame, money, and power. Women in Gatsby and in Chicago where nothing less persuade themselves to be these sexy women who can get anything they want. In the Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald women would always be with men who were so very wealthy but they had to be very popular to get with these sort of men. Remarkably in Chicago written by Rob Marshall it was slightly similar but different as well. Chicago had women who were so gorgeous that would do anything to be on the newspapers so they could make the money they always wished for. But back in 1920s it was not only

seen in the book and in the musical but it was a known fact for men and women to cheat on one another. Women never really had an input on it because women weren’t as free as their men. They didn’t know about their men cheating on them, but if it were vise versa all hell would break loose.
Women had so much potential in the 1920s to get ahold of what they were yearning for which was fame. The fame that was known to be in the 1920’s was the Jazz industry and everyone knows that. But now in the musical, Chicago, Roxie Hart used her good looks to sleep with Fred Casley. Roxie had sex with him since he said he had a friend who owned a club and can get her a gig. “You are a disloyal husband! Look, it's true. l shoot him. But it was
self-defense. He was trying to burgle me.” Chicago, 2002 film. This gig that Roxie wanted to do was associated with Jazz. Hart was wishing for this gig but since Casely lied to her she murdered him. Women in Chicago as in Velma Kelly who also murdered her man for cheating or Mama who would do anything for these ladies to be in the public eye so she could get the money she yearned for. But The Great Gatsby wasn’t really like Chicago where the women wanted to be famous. Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle from The Great Gatsby just wanted to be upper class.
Women craved the wealth that was out there to receive what they craved.

In the roaring 1920’s money was everywhere in sight. But the men were the ones with the money, so that was where the women were chasing after. In The Great Gatsby and Chicago women would be drooling over the money. All men where the apple to the woman's eyes. The Great Gatsby was portrayed towards the end as old money new money, which summed up to be that old money was when its been in the family and new money is just being brought to them. Women in Gastby just wanted to be with the men for money purposes. Daisy was married to Tom which in fact he was a millionaire but he was cheating on her. That didn’t stop her from being with him , it just made her go cheat on him with Gatsby whom she loved before. But Gatsby lied about his identity of being rich and Daisy didn’t enjoy that so much so she ran back to Tom. But in The Chicago Musical women didn’t sweat so much about the men. All they really cared was making the money themselves but the only way they could do that was by being in the spotlight. The only way Roxie, Velma, or Mama could make the money was by making a publicity stunt to fool the newspapers. The women in The Great Gatsby and Chicago would genuinely do anything it takes to be

wealthy.
Women knew they had their flaws, but never underestimated their power. In the era women were gaining their power and equality. They were getting used to the fact of learning that they had the same rights as men. Wardrobe,music, and mainly everything was changing for them! In Chicago the Musical women knew they were powerful because they can get the attention they were yearning for. In a split of a second, photographers would be all over them . They understood that were capable of doing so. Women in The Great Gatsby didn’t have that much power since they had to stay quiet about certain situation. All women were finally having an input but men weren’t used to that, doing so it held the women back. But throughout the book and the musical the women gained their strengths and their power.
Denoumentally,in the 1920’s women used their appearance to gain fame, money, and power. The Great Gatsby and Chicago showed how women were in the 1920’s. Overall women in the book and the musical got what they were yearning for which was the money and the fame, but they also received power.