Female Characters of The Great Gatsby
Female Characters of The Great GatsbyWomen of the early 1900s were focused on pleasure, beauty, and glamour. Many depended on a spouse and characterized social status with money. Women of this time period were especially materialistic; most of the female characters in The Great Gatsby displayed a value for wealth.
Daisy’s first priority obviously wasn’t her family. Throughout the entire account, Daisy’s daughter was mentioned once. In chapter seven, we meet Daisy’s daughter, who enters with a nanny. Both Daisy and Tom do not have a routine occupation, but they don’t have the time to raise their own daughter. When Caroline and Nick discuss Tom and Myrtle’s affair, Caroline states, “It’s really his wife that’s keeping them apart. She’s a Catholic and they don’t believe in divorce.”(38) Nick knew that Daisy wasn’t Catholic. So then why didn’t the Buchannans get a divorce? Because Tom had the money for Daisy to live in luxury and she feared independence. In the past, Daisy truly loved Gatsby....
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