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Presentation of women in the Great Gatsby (Daisy (Charming. "No one…
Presentation of women in the Great Gatsby
Daisy
Charming. "No one in the world she so much wanted to see". Chapter 1
Nick focuses very much on physical attributes. Face, and voice. Ch 1.
Excitable. Ch 1
"warmth" ch 1
"I'm pretty cynical about everything" ch 1
"basic insincerity" ch 1
"that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool" ch 1
"I'm pretty cynical about everything" ch 1
"tell 'em all Daisy's change' her mind" night before her wedding. ch 4
"that huge place there?" toilet set of pure gold - "Daisy took the brush with delight". "they're such beautiful shirts" ch 5
"Daisy comes over quite often - in the afternoons" servants who won't gossip - Daisy worried about her reputation? ch 7
Kissing Gatsby on the mouth when Tom leaves the room ch 7
"what'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?" "let's all go to town" ch 7
Gatsby and Tom arguing over Daisy. ch 7
Finds out the truth about Gatsby, and immediately asks Tom to take her home. ch 7
"many men had already loved Daisy" "keeping half a dozen dates a day with half a dozen men" ch 8
"she was very excited this afternoon." "she hardly knew what she was saying" ch 8
left New York after Myrtle's death ch 9
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy..." ch 9
Jordan
Nick "Almost any exhibition of complete self-sufficiency draws a stunned tribute from me". Ch 1.
"discontented face". Ch 1
Yawns a lot. Bored?
"unashamed" ch 1
Tom - "they oughtn't to let her run around the country this way" ch 1
"looking with contemptuous interest" "responded absently" "much too polite for me" ch 3
Shushes Nick so she can listen to phone call. ch 1
"incurably dishonest" "wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage" "dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply" ch 3
Willing to encourage Nick to help Daisy have an affair. ch 4
"what a low, vulgar girl" to Daisy after Daisy kisses Gatsby and suggests Jordan kiss Nick.
"you weren't so nice to me last night" "however - I want to see you" ch 8
"you threw me over on the telephone. I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me, and I felt a little dizzy for a while" ch 9
Myrtle
"sensuously" "vitality" ch. 2
Concerned with appearances/wealth. Changes clothes. Lets 4 taxicabs pass. "artifical laughter". offering dress to McKee. "these people" ch 2
"room grew smaller around her" ch 2
George's suit "only crazy I was was when I married him" "wasn't fit to lick my shoe". Tom's dress suit ch 2
Nose broken by Tom. ch 2
Wilson "and now she's going whether she wants to or not. I'm going to get her away" ch 7
Other women
Catherine. "slender worldly girl" looked possessively at the furniture. encouraging of Myrtle and Tom - perhaps naive. she and McKee "scolding and consoling" after Myrtle's nose is broken. ch 2 "showed surprising amount of character" ch 9
Lucille McKee. "almost married a little kike" talked about husband photographing her. ch 2
Girls at the party. suspicious of Gatsby but willing to accept gifts. ch 3
Real women in 1920s America
Fitzgerald and Zelda