Novels Exam  >  Novels Notes  >  The Great Gatsby - Summary, Themes & Characters  >  Gender - Themes, The Great Gatsby

Gender - Themes, The Great Gatsby | The Great Gatsby - Summary, Themes & Characters - Novels PDF Download

Here's a fun scavenger hunt for you: see where and how often the word "woman" shows up in The Great Gatsby. (Helpful hint: this online text is searchable.) We'll give you a hint: it's mostly in reference to lower class women, like Myrtle or some of the servants. Upper class women are "girls," like the "men and girls" who wander around Gatsby's garden (3.1). That doesn't quite tell you all you need to know about gender in The Great Gatsby, but it tells you a lot: Fitzgerald is no feminist, and neither, apparently, is Nick.

Chew on This

Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil’s advocate.

In The Great Gatsby, men and women don't make each other better; they just make each other worse. So much for chivalry.

Women in The Great Gatsby are mostly there to entice and subvert men. Without women messing things up, life would be a lot better.

The document Gender - Themes, The Great Gatsby | The Great Gatsby - Summary, Themes & Characters - Novels is a part of the Novels Course The Great Gatsby - Summary, Themes & Characters.
All you need of Novels at this link: Novels
31 docs
31 docs
Download as PDF
Explore Courses for Novels exam
Signup for Free!
Signup to see your scores go up within 7 days! Learn & Practice with 1000+ FREE Notes, Videos & Tests.
10M+ students study on EduRev
Related Searches

Extra Questions

,

pdf

,

Semester Notes

,

The Great Gatsby | The Great Gatsby - Summary

,

Viva Questions

,

The Great Gatsby | The Great Gatsby - Summary

,

ppt

,

Free

,

study material

,

mock tests for examination

,

Exam

,

Sample Paper

,

Objective type Questions

,

Themes & Characters - Novels

,

Themes & Characters - Novels

,

The Great Gatsby | The Great Gatsby - Summary

,

Gender - Themes

,

Summary

,

Important questions

,

shortcuts and tricks

,

Previous Year Questions with Solutions

,

practice quizzes

,

Gender - Themes

,

MCQs

,

past year papers

,

video lectures

,

Themes & Characters - Novels

,

Gender - Themes

;