People sees only the gold mask, they still see the golden girl; the golf champion, the life of the party, the socialite. In this way she differs from Daisy Buchanan. Jordan is practical, tough, simple, almost like a man. She is hard, not fragile like Daisy. She knows what she’s comfortable with, and gets rid of things that makes her unease.
An individual’s views and concerns may alter as time progresses, in keeping with the changing values of society. Over the centuries women have been the subjects to gender discrimination and unequal treatment, however within the last 100 years this has changed. Throughout Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, written in the 1800’s. many issues are raised towards women and their role in society. In comparison Fay Weldon’s Letters to Alice, written a few centuries after, shows a clear link of how particular concerns, held by society, have altered.
One of the main characters, Bertha, is described as a “thick, handsome woman” who resides in Medicine River. She comes off as a very frontal and defensive person with a strong personality, however throughout the novel, she appears to become a more independent woman through her non-traditional beliefs. Bertha had talked to Will about how she had signed up for an online dating service, and how it had asked for personal information such as her age, height, and weight. Bertha exclaims that she believes that these aspects of a person do not determine whether they will be a good match. “Thats right, It’s none of their business, that stuff” (178, Medicine River).
First of all, the similarities that both have are the same class of social life high class or rich class and the low class or poor class, and also some privileges such as; the right of vote as the main one on the 1920s and liberty of expression. On the other hand is the differences, the women on the 1920s had not legal rights such as; own properties, make contracts, do paper work, run for an office, in some words women on the 1920s were considered as delicate and
As an example two influential short stories will be discussed in depth in order to shed light into the lives of the two authors and their stories. The short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) and Angela Carter (1940–1992) both sideway the same idea; the confinement of women in particular roles and positions in both personal and professional lives, posed on them by patriarchal figures. Toril Moi quotes in her examination of feministic criticism, Sexual/Textual Politics (2002), Elaine Showalter’s idea that “women writers should not be studied as a distinct group on the assumption that they write alike, or even display stylistic resemblances distinctively feminine” (Moi, 2002: 49), which comes across when reading the two stories which are stylistically already very different. It might be so that a feminist reader of both times (there’s some 80 years difference between the two stories) did not only want to see her own experiences mirrored in fiction, but strived to identify with strong, impressive female characters (Moi, 2002: 46), and looked for role-models that would instil positive sense of feminine identity by portraying women as self-actualising strong identities who were not dependent on men (Moi, 2002, 46). The two stories bring out two female characters, very different by position and character; the other a new mother, scared and confused of her own role, and the other a young newly-wed girl, still a child, being fouled by a much older man, mainly as a mark of his authority over women in general.
Other novels I read include The Dead by James Joyce and Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, both of which addressed the theme of materialism and wealth as factors to being regarded highly in society, and how this way of functioning in society leads people away from living a true and happy life. These novels were written decades ago. One would think that with these societal problems being recognized for so long, we would have made more progress than we have by now. Instead, activists such as Audre Lourde stand decades later, addressing the same issues. Lourde, what with being a middle-aged, black, lesbian feminist with children, faces much of this oppression, and finds herself frowned upon by society.
The author stresses throughout the writing different films that had arose primarily because of the developments of the “New Woman” or in other words, the flapper. Some of the other main ideas would pertain to the image of women changing as well as the effects on class and consumerism. Ultimately, the purpose of this scholarly journal is to explain and argue that women film stars during the time of the 1920s were largely effected by the ever changing roles that women were taking in their lives. Sharot stressed image in the writing and how this greatly affected the way that women were portrayed on screen. After reading this composition, the intended audience seems to be those who are interested in film and understanding how it has developed over time, as well as those who are interested in gender studies and wish to gain a deeper understanding of how women and their roles evolved.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, the female characters represent the changing role and status of women during this era of emerging women's rights. In these characters, Fitzgerald may be giving voice to what was wrong with this era. While trying to find their voice Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and Daisy Buchanan bring disorder, manipulation, and an unraveling to the lives of the men in their path through their words, actions, and female wiles. In the following lines I will demonstrate and emphasize how the women of the novel make powerful, although subvert at times, effort to move outside the social norms of their class and the destruction that follows. First, let us look at how Jordan Baker represents the changing role and status of women.
The author’s style of writing is clear and gets the point across through general explanation rather than just retelling stories. In the article “Roman Women” many different things about a woman’s life are explained, for example “To begin at the beginning: a girls chances of being reared were less than her brothers” The particular quote I just mentioned from the article “Roman Women” is a way of saying that even early on before a girl becomes a woman she was already less important than her brother who becomes a man. Early on in the article it sets the tone that woman are of less value to society in Ancient Rome than men, for instance “But tombstones in general record many more men than women, and this again suggests that either more males were reared or they mattered more to their
To begin her name both is both appropriate for a male and a female. She also wears her hair short and doesn’t act very feminine. She is a professional golfer and at that time, it was different for woman to have a profession like that. Jordan is also dishonest because she cheated in her first golf tournament. Her role as a minor character also adds a relationship between Nick