What is the role of women in ‘The Great Gatsby?

The female character we usually think of in The Great Gatsby is Daisy, who was mentioned by Nick here: “Daisy was a second cousin once removed, and I knew Tom in college.

And just after the war, I spent two days with them in Chicago.”

Daisy appears almost removed, as an after-thought, from importance only as a wife for Tom. Later, according to Nick: “I looked again at my cousin, who first asked me a question in a low voice, thrilling. This is the kind of voice that makes the ears go up and down because if each word is a set of notes that will never be played again, her face is sad and beautiful with something bright there, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there is an excitement in the voice of the man who once cared for her found it hard to forget: a forced singing, a whispered ‘Listen,’ a promise that Aisyah had done gay, exciting things only while since and if there is gay, something exciting hovering in the next hour.

Still, Daisy is the reason that Jay Gatsby moves heaven and earth to set himself up in a lavish lifestyle. She is the reason, hope-for-a-future that makes him dare to dream, and even dare to reinvent himself (from small-town, slave farm to successful Jay Gatsby).

‘The Great Gatsby quotes

Gatsby Wall (1925) is one of the greatest American classics. This novel was written in Paris by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and it has come to be seen as a representation of the Jazz Age. Wall Gatsby relates the story of Jay Gatsby – as told by Nick Carraway. Here are some quotes from Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby.

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• “Whenever you feel like criticizing everything is wrong… just remember that all the people in this world do not have the advantages that you have experienced.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
• “What is the dust peeking floated in the wake of the dream that is temporarily closed off my feet in abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men”.
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
• “Look, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turmoil of some irrecoverable football game”.
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
• “In two weeks it will be the longest day of the year… Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
• “Our civilization is going to fruit. I have become a terrible pessimist about things… This idea is that if we do not watch out for the white race, it will be utterly submerged… It is up to us, who are the dominant race, to watch out or this other race must control things.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1
• “I hope he will be a fool – That’s the best dreamer can be in this world, a beautiful little fool … you see, I think everything is terrible as … And who I am I have been everywhere and seen everything and done everything.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

“All right … I’m glad it’s dreaming And I hope he will be a fool -.. That’s the best thing dreaming can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

• “Single green light, minute and faraway, it could be the end of a dock”.
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

• “This is the valley of ashes – a great farm where the ashes grow like wheat on ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where the ashes take the form of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, by transcendent effort, the man who moved his dimly has been crumbling through the powdery air. Sometimes a line of gray cars crawls along a track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately to the gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, the screen of their clear operation from your sight ”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
• “He thinks he’s going to see his sister in New York. He’s so dumb he doesn’t know she’s alive.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
• “I married him because I thought he was a gentleman… I thought he knew something about breeding, but he was not fit to lick my shoes.”
  

  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2

• “He borrowed our best suit to get married in, and never told me about it, and the man came after that one day when he went out… I gave it to him and then I lay down and screamed… all day.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
• “I wanted to get out and walk eastward towards the park through the soft twilight, but every time I tried to go back I became entangled in some wild, strident argument that pulled me back, as if with a rope, to my seat. But high above the city, we line from the window yellow must have contributed their share of human secrets to the casual watcher in the darkening street… I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was in and without.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 2
• “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house, I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they were there.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
• “I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it could sober me up to sit in a library.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3

“It’s a triumph What thoroughness What realism knows when it stops, too -.!!.?? Didn’t cut the glass But what you want is what you think”

• – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
• “He smiled understandingly-more than understandingly. This is one of the rare cute people with the quality of eternal happiness there, who can come across four or five times in this life. you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It is understood by you just as far as you want to be understood, believed in you as you want to believe in yourself.”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3

• “I feel a haunting loneliness sometimes, and feel it in others – young clerks in the ass, wasting the most poignant moments of the night and life”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
• “It takes two to make an accident”.
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
• “Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known”
  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 3
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