The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s finest work, and it has been widely reviewed by critics. This paper focus on one of the female protagonists, Daisy Buchanan, to illustrate female modernity in the novel. This will be done by analyzing Daisy’s attitude toward marriage and family. It comes to the conclusion that the novel depicts female modernity and shows great concern about women. Thus, The Great Gatsby is also a women’s book.

Yang Gao. A Feminist Approach to The Great Gatsby. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2021), Vol. 3, Issue 6: 42-46. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2021.030610.

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