The Women of Gatsby

In The Great Gatsby, the greatest female part is Daisy Buchanan. She is Tom's wife, and she is very emotional, happy, mesmerizing, and depressed at the beg ginning of the book. She first tells Nick that she is someone she never really wanted to be, and that she puts up this facade of her life. Then as we soon learn, she has a strong past with Jay Gatsby. Her and Gatsby used to be lovers when they were younger. Eventually they meet again, and start having an affair, well the affair soon comes out of the closet so to speak. But during this, she is a very careless woman, she is selfish in many ways, and demands to have what she wants.



One of the other main women in the novel is Jordan Baker. She also is a strange and different woman. She is actually very independent considering it was in the 20's when woman were expected to stay home and do nothing more. She was a professional golfer and was talented enough to go into the tournaments. In the book it describes her also as a beautiful woman. Nick and her became somewhat of an item, they have an eye out for each other. She likes to gossip and it seems to always be about her cousin, Daisy, because she is always informing Nick what is going on with their relationship, she is the one who informs us that Tom is having an affair. She doesn't really like herself either and she admits it. Saying that 'she is too careless and hate people like that.' But she is genuine, she doesn't get into much o the drama going on around her.

Another woman is Myrtle Wilson, who isn't in much of the novel but plays a big part. She is Tom's mistress. From the beginning she is mentioned, but remained unnamed. She already causes stir up from Daisy already knowing. Then Tom takes Nick out for the a day and introduces him to her and we learn that she is a very up scaled woman demanding much although she does not come from money herself. Her husband is not from money and she bosses her husband around, meaning she has a strong personality and for her to be having an affair is very ruthless, again women were the expected to do the exact opposite, so she is very rebellious. Later on in the novel, we discover that she is being held against her will in her house and her husband is going to take them somewhere, she escapes and runs out into the street, which is very busy, and is ran over ironically by Tom's wife, Daisy, and killed instantly but Tom was not in the car with her. And we learn that both her husband and Tom are stricken with grief