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The Portrayal of Women in The Great Gatsby

Himawan Agung Rida Pambudi, et al. "The Portrayal of Women in the Great Gatsby by F.

Scott Fitzgerald and its Relationship to Indonesian Women on Education." Journal of

English Education and Teaching, vol. 2, no. 4, June 2019, pp. 48–67. EBSCOhost,

doi.org/10.33369/jeet.2.4.48-67.

This research examines the three major female characters, Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and

Myrtle Wilson. This article has discussed in great length the characteristics of these women. The

author then examines how the portrayal of these three women relates to how women were

viewed and treated in the 1920s. The researcher has also extensively discussed how the portrayal

of these female characters is closely related to Indonesian women characters. This article will

make an important contribution to the research since it has examined the lives of the female

characters closely and compared them to real-life females.

Li, Na. "A comparative study between A Tale of Two Cities and The Great Gatsby--the

self-sacrifice spirits in romanticism." Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 3, no.

11, Nov. 2013, pp. 2067+. Gale Literature Resource Center,

link.gale.com/apps/doc/A353321559/LitRC?u=maco12153&sid=ebsco&xid=295a27ca.

Accessed 18 Feb. 2022.

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It is a comparative study between two great works of literature. This article examines the self-

sacrifice spirits in romanticism in both novels, and in so doing, the author has reviewed how the

women in the book the Great Gatsby have sacrificed for love. The theme of romance

significantly comes out in the novel due to the female characters and the various romantic

relationships they have had with the male characters of the book. This article is important to the

research since it shows how females represented in the novel view and regard the concept of love

and romance, not forgetting that these women were a representation of women in the 1920s.

Dinurriyah, Itsna Syahadatud. "Women's view on men's success: in F. Scott Firztgerald's

the Great Gatsby and Hamka's Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck." JEFL: Journal on

English as a Foreign Language 4.2 (2014): 87-90.

This article has examined how the women in the Great Gatsby view marriage alongside the

women in Hamka's Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck. The lives of women in the novel have

been studied in relation to those in another book for comparison purposes. The author has

examined how the women in the novels behaved when their husbands were not as successful as

men from their previous relationships. Many women often put money and success at the center

of marriages. In this regard, this article will be important for the research since it shows how the

women in the novel factored in money and success while choosing their partners. This

representation of women was important in understanding how women in the 1920s viewed

marriages alongside money and successs.

Kim, Sun-ok. "The Ambivalent Representation of the 1920s American New Women, the

Flappers in the Great Gatsby." Studies in Modern Fiction, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019, pp. 241–

64. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=mlf&AN=202019082637&site=eds-live&scope=site.
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This article has argued that women have negatively been represented in the Great Gatsby. This

novel has examined how the narrator negatively describes the women and judges the morality of

the female characters. Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle have negatively been described throughout the

book. Fitzgerald has negatively portrayed the flappers despite the fact that they were an emblem

of women's liberation in the 1920s. This research is very useful towards the completion of the

research since it is among the few pieces of research that have argued that women in the novel

have negatively been portrayed, which might argue that the novel wrongly represented women in

the 1920s.

Maclean, Rose. "A Petronian Brothel in the Great Gatsby." Ancient Narrative, vol. 13, Jan.

2016, p. 17. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A485672639&site=eds-

live&scope=site.

The author has gone to great lengths to examine the portrayal of women in the novel and the

various affairs they had throughout the novel. The author does so while examining how the novel

relates to Petronius's Satyricon. The romantic and sexual relationships of the women in the Great

Gatsby have been analyzed alongside those of other characters.

Makowsky, Veronica. "Bad Driving: Jordan's Tantalizing Story in the Great Gatsby." The

F. Scott Fitzgerald Review., vol. 9, no. 1, F Scott Fitzgerald Society,

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6333.2011.01042.x.

Despite the fact that this article is dedicated to examining the character of Jordan Baker, whose

views on womanhood have significantly been explored. The author has also explored women's
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ambiguous and changing roles in the 1920s, as expressed in the novel. This article will help look

at the portrayal of women from the eyes of a male character in the book. s

Frances Kerr. "Feeling 'Half Feminine': Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in the

Great Gatsby." American Literature, vol. 68, no. 2, June 1996, pp. 405–31. EBSCOhost,

doi.org/10.2307/2928304.

The portrayal of women in the Great Gatsby cannot be discussed separately from the portrayal of

sexuality in the novel. The author has employed the portrayal of gender binaries while discussing

the characters, including the female characters. Nick's fantasies of a carefree woman show how

the author wanted to portray women. Similarly to research by Makowsky this article looks at the

portrayal of the female character through the eyes of a male character.

Works Cited
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Dinurriyah, Itsna Syahadatud. "Women's view on men's success: in F. Scott Firztgerald's the

Great Gatsby and Hamka's Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck." JEFL: Journal on

English as a Foreign Language 4.2 (2014): 87-90.

Frances Kerr. "Feeling 'Half Feminine': Modernism and the Politics of Emotion in the Great

Gatsby." American Literature, vol. 68, no. 2, June 1996, pp. 405–31. EBSCOhost,

doi.org/10.2307/2928304.

Himawan Agung Rida Pambudi, et al. "The Portrayal of Women in the Great Gatsby by F. Scott

Fitzgerald and It's Relationship to Indonesian Women on Education." Journal of English

Education and Teaching, vol. 2, no. 4, June 2019, pp. 48–67. EBSCOhost,

doi.org/10.33369/jeet.2.4.48-67.

Kim, Sun-ok. "The Ambivalent Representation of the 1920s American New Women, the

Flappers in the Great Gatsby." Studies in Modern Fiction, vol. 26, no. 2, 2019, pp. 241–

64. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com

Li, Na. "A comparative study between A Tale of Two Cities and The Great Gatsby--the self-

sacrifice spirits in romanticism." Theory and Practice in Language Studies, vol. 3, no. 11,

Nov. 2013, pp. 2067+. Gale Literature Resource Center,

link.gale.com/apps/doc/A353321559/LitRC?u=maco12153&sid=ebsco&xid=295a27ca.

Accessed 18 Feb. 2022.

Maclean, Rose. "A Petronian Brothel in the Great Gatsby." Ancient Narrative, vol. 13, Jan. 2016,

p. 17. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?

direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsglr&AN=edsglr.A485672639&site=eds-

live&scope=site.
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Makowsky, Veronica. "Bad Driving: Jordan's Tantalizing Story in the Great Gatsby." The F.

Scott Fitzgerald Review., vol. 9, no. 1, F Scott Fitzgerald Society,

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6333.2011.01042.x.