The Women of Gatsby

The author of Gatsby Fitzgerald openly shows his opinion that women generally have low moral qualities, and demonstrates this by the actions and speech illustrated by the people in this book: Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson.Each had their own flaws and were branded under the category of a typical woman with low moral virtues. Fitzgerald made sure to bring out childish actions from women as often as possible, and distinctively emphasized them when a male was also a part of a wrongdoing. During the story, men were portrayed as corrupt and fraudulent, but women were always one worse, and he took advantage of every opportunity he could to exploit them.He wanted to show that women were as bad as men.

The story is about love and deception between three girls. In the novel, Daisy loves Gatsby but stays with her husband Tom , because of the security he can offer her.Myrtle Wilson cheated on her husband and didn't treat her well. Jordan Baker is a woman who lies and is also very independent in life and would prefer not to have a man in her life.Women have many reasons for loving and staying with the different men in their lives.Daisy abuses the men in her life in an emotional way needs security more then love with some man.Myrtle mistreats her husband all the time,and loves money, and Jordan lies to men. All three of these girls were motivated by the same thing, money.http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/elmer/infoCentral/frameset/decade/1920.htm

Jay Gatsby is a young man desperate to win the acceptance of the old money, elitist class, and in particular the love of his former partner, Daisy.Over the years, Gatsby imagines Daisy as the perfect girl that he once knew before the war. When he meets her for the first time in five years he is pale as a ghost and cant move.As the story get unfolded Fitzgerald portrays women in a negative fashion.Fitzgerald uses Daisy, Jordan Baker and Myrtle Wilson to illustrate the disapproving qualities of carelessness selfishness and dishonesty.He not only depicts women as corrupt, but also as continually dependent on men. Fitzgerald illustration of women as foolish, careless and dishonest regardless of their individual and varying backgrounds.