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This 4 page paper considers Fitzgerald's attitude toward gender, based on what we can glean from his writing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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people of the 1920s and 30s. And while Fitzgerald has created memorable male characters (Jay Gatsby, Tom Buchanan), it is the women in his works that seem most alive. This
paper considers Fitzgeralds attitude toward gender, based on what we can glean from his writing. Discussion Lets begin with probably the prototypical Fitzgerald female: Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby.
She is in reality shallow, selfish and grasping, and yet Jay Gatsby, who despite his shady connections is an honorable man, loves her beyond all reason. When we observe Daisys
behavior, we see a manipulative, careless girl, but when we look at her through the lens of Gatsbys devotion, she becomes ethereal, magical, the epitome of everything that is alluring
and beautiful in women. She is beautiful, unpredictable, and elusive-and it appears that she and others like her were based on real people. While he was at Princeton, Fitzgerald "met
the girl who would become the prototype for so many of the beautiful but elusive women who appear in his stories and novels, Ginevra King" (Prigozy, 1989, p. 99). And
that phrase describes them quite accurately: "beautiful but elusive." Fitzgerald has a romantic view of life and of women; "Romance" in this context takes it classic meaning of "marvelous adventures"
and "chivalrous, heroic knights" rescuing beautiful maidens (Romance, 2006). Not all romances end happily (the poet Byron is a Romantic and his work is very melancholy), but they all have
an idealistic world view, even though it is sometimes betrayed. Fitzgerald has that romantic view of women; it comes out particularly in his short stories. The "major subjects of
Fitzgerald s short stories" include, among many others, "the sadness of the unfulfilled life and the unrecapturable moment of bliss, the romantic imagination and its power to transform reality, love,
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