The Great Gatsby is a novel written by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in 1925, set in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s, in which the author successfully portrays three full-figured women, Daisy from the upper class, Jordan born in the middle class and Myrtle from the lower class. They come from different classes and have different personalities, but all have regrettable fates. This paper will analyze the characteristics of these three women from a feminist perspective. Through this analysis, it can be concluded that the reasons for these unconventional female images are inseparable from the money-oriented and patriarchal society of the time, and their unfortunate fate is not only attributed to themselves, but also the result of th oppression of women by the patriarchal society.

Junshuang Wang. An analysis of female characters in The Great Gatsby from the perspective of feminist. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 10: 93-97. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.071017.

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