Did women enjoy predefined equality rights or did they become successful in their constant struggle for equality?.
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Unlike the absolute absence of women in Horatio Alger's book Ragged Dick of the 19th century, there is a seemingly ultimate freedom in F.Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel The Great Gatsby. Despite the suffrage movements and the other accomplishments made by women of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century America, The Great Gatsby shows that there was still moral rectitude and denigration of women due to the inherent boisterous and arrogant characteristics of men. The author doesn't attribute the mistakes made by the women of his time to the erroneous nature of all human beings; furthermore, the male characters in his novel are implacable individuals who claim to be flawless and who marginalize women for their naivety. When critics say: "The American Dream has gone awry", they fail to recognize that a well-rounded modicum of success is never achievable by a discriminatory approach and that inclusiveness is one of the pillars of the American dream (Marissa 1). On the other hand, the female characters in The Great Gatsby are not passive onlookers and are in a constant, breath-taking struggle against the oppressive system of the 'rule of men'. In her essay "Victims of Morality", Emma Goldman said: "In her love for the man she is not concerned in the contents of his pocketbook, but in the wealth of his nature, which alone is the fountain of life and of joy. Nor does she need the sanction of the State. Her love is sanction enough for her. Thus she can abandon herself to the man of her choice, as the flowers abandon themselves to dew and light, in freedom, beauty, and ecstasy" (Goldman 4). The novel revolves around the main female character in the novel, Daisy (the golden girl) who --uncluttered by the long lasting repression and unbounded by the oppressive culture −makes an attempt to marry the man of her choice (Fitzgerald 130).
