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1、On the Three Female Characters in The Great Gatsby20111151121 中国青年政治学院 外语系 潘思岑 1. General introductionThe American dream is a unique cultural phenomenon in American history, also is a everlasting theme in American literature. Fitzgerald, most good at writing about American dream, is a genuine author
2、 born under American culture and the American dream. Fitzgerald is outstanding in literary circles in the United States along with Hemingway, Faulkner. The Great Gatsby is the representative work of Fitzgerald, published in 1925. By describing the protagonist Gatsby pursuing the American dream, achi
3、eving the American dream and eventually becoming a kind of sacrifice during the process of the American dream, the novel critically reflected the corruption, erosion and the strong criticism of the American society under the a flashy, bright and exciting surface. This work has been praised as the mo
4、st profound contemporary American novel, which has been recognized embodiment of creative thinking and artistic style of Fitzgerald. The author himself also acknowledges that the novel is his conscious artistic achievement from creative thinking. It is Gatsby, as one of Fitzgerald protagonists in th
5、e novel, who has been a typical figure in the world literary gallery and recorded into the western literary classic(114). In The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald exquisitely and accurately depicts the “jazz age”. The three important female images are particularly impressive: Gatsbys dream lover, Daisy Buchan
6、an from a noble family, Daisys girlfriend, also a golf player Jordan Baker, and Tom Buchanans mistress Myrtle Wilson. As for Jordan Baker who always keeps skeptical for the world, “there are only people just pursuing and being pursued, also the busy and leisure in the world.”(107). What leads to the
7、 decay and parasitic values for life of these women, we think, is the era they live in. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald created 3 different female characters with different social class, different culture background, different personality temperaments. But they share an important thing in
8、common that they live depending on man and try their best to realize their life value from the pursuit of men. This suggests that the decadent parasitic life style and consciousness of these female characters in the field reflects the female psychological structure and ethics of the jazz age.As Malc
9、olm Cowley, an American literary critic, states that Fitzgerald has been infatuated with money when he was young, but then he broke the pale with luxurious life and got poisoned by money. So he has a profound understanding of the value of money and can vividly depicted a romance of money for upper c
10、lass(3). Admittedly, from his own experiences and feelings in the book Fitzgerald focuses on the performance of the American tragedy and the tragedy of the times.2. Daisy Buchanan Daisy Buchanan, a beautiful and young rich woman, was Nicks cousin, and was also Gatsbys lover. Gatsby won Daisys heart
11、with a handsome gentleman image, and they fell in love. Daisy promised she would always wait for him. In fact, Gatsby was in love with Daisy on purpose, that is, he wanted to satisfy his vanity to be in love with such a beautiful girl, and once he get Daisys heart, he felt dull. He even once wanted
12、Daisy to end the relationship with him. As the result of war, they were separated. This made Daisy feel the invisible pressure. Just like other millions of women, Daisy liked to enjoy an extravagant life. She would not sacrifice her interests for Gatsbys so-called dream. It is biased for us to think
13、 Daisy as a mammonist only because she loved money .Maybe it is right for that kind of poor girls who always wanted to be a Cinderella, but its not for her. Daisy was just born with wealth. Charlotte Gilman, a feminist critic, once pointed out that in the booming l920s of the United States, the U.S.
14、 womens social status was still under the influence of male discourse, that was to say, womens family background and marital status determines their social status. When a girl wanted to get a sense of security only through a respectable marriage, Gatsby was poor and couldnt give her this spiritual s
15、ecurity. In order to pursue true inner desire, Daisy had no such power to resist the present system only by herself. So, the only thing she could do was to resist such disharmony of happiness with another form. In the end, she ended the relationship with Gatsby, and chose to be Tom Buchanans wife. H
16、owever, because of Toms selfish and merciless, in other word, it represented another patriarchal system and such marriage would be a nightmare for Daisy.When she talked about her situation to Nick, Daisy said: I think everything is bad in my life.Seemingly, simple words revealed her lost of inner heart. Indeed, her love, marriage, and even herself had deviated from the normal track, which made her lost herself. Soon, she found that Tom, vulgar and rude, tr
