Gloire Mboungou Mrs. Phillips English III May 6, 2015 Comparison and Contrast of Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle In the Great Gatsby there were three personas of women presented. The golden girl, the independent, and the gold digger. Each of these traits was represented in a different character. Daisy Buchanan was the golden girl, Jordan Baker was the independent woman, and Myrtle Wilson was the gold digger. Daisy Buchanan was extremely charming and many men fell for her because of her voice “Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her” (Fitzgerald, 9).
Enobarbus’ barge quote from Act 2 Scene 2 depicts Cleopatra as an enchantress or goddess; as something any man should want. “I saw her once hop forty paces/and having lost her breath, she/spoke, she panted, that she did/make defect perfection and,/ breathless, power breathe forth.” This conveys her unworldly perfection, that where women should look unsightly when in exercise, Cleopatra displays it as dazzling and elegant. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/ her infinite variety.” The reoccurring metaphor comparing sexual desire to hunger is shown here. Cleopatra is compared to a food, that will never go stale, a food that has an infinite variety to keep anybody in hunger for it. Antony,
In today’s society women are always worrying about their appearance. Their perspectives on how they should present themselves are imposed by everything around them. Friends, celebrities and the media are the main reasons why women fee the need to live their lifestyle a specific way. Sometimes, celebrities don’t even need to say anything to have an effect on one; women in today’s society are already provoked on changing just by feeling intimidated by them. In Nina Power’s text, ‘One- Dimensional Woman’ the author also argues that you don’t need superficial things to feel good about yourself, or to even look like perfectly thin stick figure to be a feminist.
Who never knew getting there can be a difficult task. Daisy was a beautiful young woman who stole all the men hearts, including Jay Gatsby. Daisy represents love, giving love and being loved. From her elegance to her innocent actions, men were glued to her like a boy stuck to the television. But Daisy was a very picky girl.
She is always shown wearing tight clothes with her breasts coming out and her butt is always out there as well. For example in “The Women” she has the role of a promiscuous, sexy and fierced-tempered, and sexually manipulative character. Another film is “Girl in Progress”, in which they show her as an irresponsible parent who cares more about going out and chasing men but is still shown for her sexy
American Beauty ventures through the lives of a family and their contiguous society with very low self-worth. We see them struggle to find who they are and what they really want with their lives. In particular, the director Sam Mendes examines Angela who we see try to deal with her need to be anything but ordinary and we watch as she battles inside her mind to be sincerely happy. The director of American Beauty, Sam Mendes explores Angela’s desires and shows us how insecure a beautiful teenage girl can be and her need to be something everyone wants. On the outside, Angela seems to have very high self-esteem; she is beautiful, successful, and proud of herself and brags about her supposed sexual encounters with various men.
In the book Working Women Don’t Have Wives one daughter went on to state, “My mother wore high fashion, bright colours-often Pucci silks, those splendid garish prints of the 1960s which bespoke fun and daring. She flaunted her appearance, and then criticized men for noticing it. She flirted with men and then complained that they treated women differently from the way they behaved with male colleagues. She complained that her colleagues could never forget that she was a woman, and yet she constantly reminded them that she was. She knew that women who disguised their sexuality were likely to be promoted more readily than she, yet simultaneously she thought her sexuality was a trump card.
Critical Analysis G.I. Jane In her article, “I Won. I’m Sorry,” Mariah Burton Nelson contends that it’s hard for a woman to walk the line of success in any sport or competition and not have to worry about looking and acting feminine. She states, “Most female winners play the femininity game to some extent, using femininity as a defense, a shield against accusations such as bitch, man-hater, and lesbian. Women who want to win without losing male approval temper their victories with beauty, with softness, with smallness, with smiles” (Signs of Life in the USA 540).
The soap opera’s producer tells Michael/Dorothy “You are a breakthrough lady for us, Dorothy. You’re your own person” (Ballon 62). Even though Dorothy seems to have a strong woman character, he seems to victimize women as well. She always casts them as weak, unassertive, roles that amplify our perception of women as beautiful but weak in their real lives. Only when Dorothy appears, does the breakthrough occur, meaning that it is male-initiated.
These women may not share any particularly close relationship, but develop a sense of solidarity through sharing similar interests, agenda, or worldview. When a reader sees ‘The Face’, it is not because of how beautiful she looks, but the power of millions of other women seeing it and knowing it too. Wolf cites further evidence using magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan (explained during group presentation). By investigating why women, unlike men, can easily succumb to such evils, Wolf provides some answers to this multifaceted issue by illustrating magazines as the only a vital piece of mass media that directly communicates with women, so they are very important to women despite the manipulative and condescending approach for which the advertisers persistently deploy; and consequently, women are also restrained by generations of poor education (ex. Heroine = beauty, but never both beauty and brains) and limited encouragement or opportunity for critical thinking (Ex.