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A 5 page essay that discusses two of the most famous female characters in literature, Daisy Buchanan from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Nora Helmer from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. While dissimilar in their fundamental character and motivation, both of these women are victims of the heritage of patriarchy, which has historically been the defining factor in gender relations in Western society. In general, readers and critics tend to idealize Nora and despise Daisy; however, a close reading of both works suggests that these women share innumerable similarities, and these similarities underscore the fact that they are both victims. Bibliography lists 3 sources, but a supporting source citation is incomplete.
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both of these women are victims of the heritage of patriarchy, which has historically been the defining factor in gender relations in Western society. In general, readers and critics tend
to idealize Nora and despise Daisy; however, a close reading of both works suggests that these women share innumerable similarities, and these similarities underscore the fact that they are both
victims. Nora and Daisy, first of all, are similar in that they cultivate similar relations toward the men in their lives. Critics have written extensively on the fact that
Jay Gatsby sees Daisy unrealistically, as an ideal, and never as a real person. However, it is also true that Daisy does not see Gatsby realistically and she, also, expresses
"the same desire to escape the temporal world" (Pearson). She tells Gatsby that she would like to get "one of those pink clouds...and put you in it and push you
around" (Fitzgerald 95). Daisy romanticizes Gatsby as much as he does her, so when she learns the truth about his mysterious background, it crushes her feelings for him because those
feelings were based on illusion. Similarly, Nora sees her husband, Torvald, in unrealistic, romantic terms. She imagines him to be her strong protector, her male bulwark against a potentially
hostile public world. Yet, she confesses to a friend that she keeps her business activities a secret from him because it would be "painful and humiliating" for him to learn
that she took out a loan in order to save his health (Ibsen). Nora was told by a physician that unless Torvald spent considerable time in a warm climate, he
would never recover from an illness. Nora secretly secured a loan so that they could spend a year in Italy. Nora and Daisy both cultivate fragile illusions in their
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