The Great Gatsby discusses, criticizes, and participates in this period by exposing the materialism, sexism, classism, and racism which prevailed at the time. Fitzgerald’s work attacks the American capitalist system by punishing careless materialistic characters such as Myrtle Wilson and Jay Gatsby. Moreover, the novel examines the flapper’s liberation, and the struggles women had to face such as domestic violence, disrespect, and inequality. However, at the same time, the book contributes to sexism by depicting female characters, such as Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker, and Daisy Buchanan, as money-oriented, liars, immature, and even evil women. Finally, I am going to show that The Great Gatsby also reconstructs and reflects the fight of subaltern groups, the working-class and immigrants, to raise their voice among the American society during the 1920s. The novel exhibits classism and racism because it shows how white upper-class Americans, such as the Buchanans, enjoyed their wealth happily while the poor and foreigners were isolated and forgotten.
micahmichelle734.blog 