Fitzgerald and Women
As we further looked into the different lenses The Great Gatsby can be viewed through, the feminism lens stood out the most to me, and after I heard another person's opinions on Daisy's character, I started to wonder why F. Scott Fitzgerald went to such lengths to villainize his female characters, especially in The Great Gatsby and The Diamond as Big as The Ritz. Daisy and Kismine, two characters that held so much potential, were wasted because of Fitzgerald's discontent towards the "New Women" of the 1920s. Daisy had the potential to be an idol towards younger women, she could have guided them out of their confined lives and shown them that women have choices too. The same goes for Kismine, who is portrayed as the girl who has no value for human life, the young and rich girl whose tired of being rich. The failure to bring depth to these characters shows us Fitzgerald's views on women, and how he could possibly see them as prizes to be won by men. &