The "New Woman" born in the 1920's also known as "The Roaring Twenties" lost all self vaule, and respect. Author Fitzgerald used his female characters to be the "drama" in his novel "The great Gatsby" by having females like Daisy be known as a gold digging, materialist, unfaithful, and trustworthy women, it painted an image as a cheap women and it took women years to have a better title other than a "flapper"
Women, educated human beings and are equal to all. Women are strong and should have class. In the book "The Great Gatsby" Women were not treated as equals and flirted with millionaires for attention and material things. The "New Women" was born in the 20's, she lost all self morals and lost all self respect and control. She wore ridiculous amounts of make-up and slept around without waiting for the right man to come along and respect her for who she is. In the book "The Great Gatsby" women had husbands but cheated on used them for money and slept with other men for more material object to keep them happy and busy.
In the novel, Daisy Buchanan had no morals or discipline. She was a flirt, free-spirited, and not a trustworthy woman. Daisy's cousins in the novel Nick Carroway, introduced Daisy to the reader as a Woman that gets around. Some of these comments were symbolic or on the low, when Daisy fell in love with Gatsby while she was married, Daisy as a person developed into an entirely different character. Although women make mistakes, a numerous amount show guilt or show self- discipline most likely if they mess up in their marriages.
Women like Daisy are also known as “gold diggers,” women alike have materialistic, and money hungry thoughts. She married Tom Buchanan for his wealth, although she was in love with Gatsby who was her summer love, but she chose not to wait for him to become wealthy. She didn’t wait for Gatsby because he had no money at the time, which motivated Gatsby to become a millionaire, for Daisy love and attention, its a good thing for her, Tom’s wealth paid off and Daisy has had the chance to appear in many in many newspapers and invited to many parties. In some ways she can be described as high maintenance pre-Madonna. Although, she does not fit the image of the new woman today, today the majority of women are now working for themselves instead of their husbands doing all the work. Today they also support and mother their children on their own, in the novel, Daisy did not seem to have a strong relationship or bond with her daughter.
One thing I noticed was that the women in the book allowed their husbands to beat them and cheat on them, like it was normal and okay, women today can still be hurt by their men but you don't really see them sticking around for the abuse no matter how much money their husband makes and how many diamonds, clothes, and cars he can provide for her.
This novel portrays a negative and weak image towards women, women have so much more self respect that is not shown throughout this novel. The female characters make women look so bad in this novel. They struggle to be the strong and motherly natured women we are today, yet Fitzgerald choose them to be weak and selfish women who only wanted shiny material objects to look at themselves through. Daisy, a woman that wants so much in life definitely does not paint an image of the women today, she allowed her husband to walk all over her and sleep around and have her relationship with her young daughter not fully form and grow, she had the chance to show her daughter how a real woman should act and should be treated but she allowed herself to push her daughter away.
Women today need to take better care of themselves and teach the young women how to act with self discipline and how to find a man that will truly love her for who she is and not what she looks like. Novels written like this set back the Women's rights a hundred years, they show that women are weak human beings and that we cant provide for ourselves and others on our own, I wonder if women even knew it was okay or "normal" to be respected by men. The men in this novel set women up to be pampered and hurt, Gatsby a man the respected all still allowed Daisy to control his life without showing her she is capable of doing things for herself while still being loved by a man.
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