What Are Gender Roles In The Great Gatsby

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Ebony Perez
Ms. Barnes
English 11
December 13, 2017

The Great Gatsby Analysis: Gender Roles
In the book the Great Gatsby Fitzgerald puts a negative spotlight on the women. There are plenty of stereotypes about men and women relationships and the way women are supposed to act in certain situations. He characterizes the women as dependent on the men, selfish, and completely careless. “No women can call herself free who does not control her own body” --Margret sanger. Traditionally, men have the most dominate roles and women are supposed to listen. The males accept the position as head of the family. In most cases, the responsibilities are given out based on “manliness”. In the novel women are restricted with their freedom with certain things. Gender dominated over people’s lives stopping them from having their own rights to make their own decisions. The expectation, based on their gender, and is visible when comparing Tom Buchanan, Daisy Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and Myrtle Wilson. This is also visible in Tom’s and Daisy’s daughter Pamela. …show more content…

And I hope she’ll be a fool - that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” on Page 17 Chapter One is saying that she hopes that her daughter Pamela grows up to only learn nothing but to surrender to her significate other. She hopes that Pamela does not feel the defeat that she herself is feeling inside. She hopes that Pamela grows up to fit the status that a woman should in her husbands, and others, eyes. Not breaking that cycle and bring negative attention to herself. It also shows that Daisy has finally understood her place in her and Tom’s relationship. In Daisy eyes, women where seen as pretty much objects to look at and birth the husband’s children. She knows that women are to make themselves presentable to make everyone else think that the relationship that women are in is going

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