Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Do you agree that there is no woman in The Great Gatsby with whom the reader can sympathize?

The three women in The Great Gatsby
are Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle. "Sympathize" is actually a complex word meaning variously
to have common shared feeling with someone; to feel compassionate toward someone; to be
in approving accord with someone; to agree with someone. Let's take a look at the
qualities and actions of the three women and judge whether they have any qualities or
behaviors that can be shared, agreed with, approved of, accorded with or extended
compassion.


Daisy rejects every sincere, honest human
feeling for thrills and selfish pleasures. She has little regard or affection for her
daughter (a female with one whom can easily and readily sympathize). She murders someone
and lets someone else take the blame for it. Jordan is callous and cheats at the only
thing that can make her admirable: golf. She toys with affectionate feelings then walks
away from them as though they were not worth the effort--or any effort. Myrtle is
selfish, vain and vulgar. She is greedy. She has no sense of honor or compassion, which
is obvious by the bold and direct way in which she mistreats her husband. I would say
that the character sketches of these three women lead to the conclusion that, no, there
are no women in The Great Gatsby with whom readers can
sympathize.

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