Feminism
Feminism in the 20's
Feminism in Gatsby
Characters
Quotes
100
A social appeal for equality in power among the sexes is called this.
What is feminism?
100
A woman who exercised the new freedoms, such as voting, and who left the traditional home role of women behind was called this.
What is a "new woman"?
100
The feminism in The Great Gatsby is really deconstructed feminism, as it is only considered from this viewpoint.
What is the male viewpoint?
100
The female character that is Tom's wife and Gatsby's lover is called this.
Who is Daisy?
100
"Dishonesty in a woman is something you never blame deeply" is said by Nick of this woman.
Who is Daisy?
200
Feminists argued that this, not male or female biological capacity or makeup, taught children how to behave in a masculine or feminine way.
What are gender roles?
200
These "New Women" were seen as threatening by this group of people.
Who are conservatives?
200
Women in The Great Gatsby are often referred to as being this.
What is dishonest?
200
The female character that Nick was interested in during the early parts of the book, but later breaks up with, is called this.
Who is Jordan?
200
This character is described by Nick as having a voice "only full of money."
Who is Daisy?
300
Women wanted to move out of the home, where they were not paid, and participate in this.
What is the economy or workforce?
300
A new civil right that was recently acquired by women in the 1920's, which they began exercising.
What is voting?
300
The women at Gatsby's parties are looked down on by Nick for being "unladylike" and this.
What is insincere?
300
The female character who is Tom's lover, whom Daisy later kills in a hit-and-run is called this.
Who is Myrtle?
300
Nick mentions that this character had "known women early," and thus became contemptuous of them.
Who is Gatsby?
400
The patriarchal society viewed women as belonging in the home as guardians of this.
What are the public morals?
400
The woman's economic role outside the home expanded in the 1920's because of this.
What is World War I?
400
The three main female characters we interact with all commit acts that would be considered these.
What are social taboos? What is wild, hedonistic behavior?
400
Fitzgerald considered The Great Gatsby more of a man's book, mainly because of lack of these.
What are female characters?
400
Nick says of this woman that she had athletic movements, "as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings."
Who is Jordan?
500
The feminists consider it their mission to promote and educate to create this.
What is gender equality?
500
The system before the 1920's which the "new women" of the 1920's wished to break free from.
What is the patriarchy?
500
The only female character engaged in a traditionally male activity is Jordan, who does this for a living.
What is professional golf?
500
Of the three main female characters, the only one who "resisted the patriarchy" was this one.
Who is Jordan?
500
Nick mentions that this person likes "the wealth that imprisons and preserves safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor."
Who is Daisy?
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