Ellis Govoni
Christie
Beverdge
Critical Theory
November 29,
2012
In Louis Tyson’s feminist reading of the Great Gatsby, she explores the lives and
actions of the main characters in the novel in a feminist perspective. In Louis Tyson’s opinion, in the “Roaring
20’s” Women were supposed to fallow a patriarchal role and let the men take
care of them and care to their needs, while they stay home and take care of the
children and the home. Will it is obvious that Daisy follows this idea; she
does not follow the traditional patriarchal role. In fact she only follows the
role for whom ever has the most wealth and who can better provide for her, in
this case it is Gatsby and Tom do a very bad job at keeping her a good
respective women. However with the often sexist and condescending nature of men
in this time period, perhaps the women of the novel (Daisy, Myrtle, Jordan) are
just following their natural inclinations. This is shown clearly in Nicks quote
the so-called “reliable narrator”,
“…Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.” This implies
a feminine weakness in the woman at the time, from a mans perspective. The Great
Gatsby is filled with quintessential feminist taboos, that furthermore
support the theory of the reckless new woman.
1) Where does the sexism even come from.
2) Why would F. Scot Fitzgerald deiced for the main women to disobey the status quo.
No comments:
Post a Comment