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The Female Images of The Great Gatsby



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WANG Ai-yun

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.11.004

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China

The Great Gatsby is set in Long Island and New York City in the 1920s. It is the novella written by the American writer Scott Fitzgerald in 1925 and established Fitzgerald’s position in the history of modern American literature. However, the researches about The Great Gatsby are almost always confined to the interpretation of the American dream, writing skills and the fate of the characters analysis and the interpretation of the original language style. The papers on female images from the perspective of feminism are comparatively few. This paper firstly introduces The Great Gatsby and domestic and foreign researches on it. The first part analyzes the three main female characters in the novel in detail, the second part tells their final fates in the novel, and the third part analyzes the deep root causes of the tragic fates of these female characters from three aspects.

The Great Gatsby, female images, feminism

Journal of Literature and Art Studies, November 2023, Vol. 13, No. 11, 831-836