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Feminist Perspectives on the Portrayal of "Jordan Baker" in The Great Gatsby
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Abstract
The Great Gatsby is a middle-grade novel set in New York City and Long Island in the 1920s by American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, and this work established F. Scott Fitzgerald's place in modern American literary history. It is also one of the most prestigious works of literature in the United States, and its status in the American literary world is evident in the fact that it has been brought to the screen and stage many times. This paper analyzes the female figure of Jordan Baker from a feminist perspective and with the original text of the novel. People can get a glimpse of the development of feminism in the 1920s. All these are closely related to the social background of that time, and people can also find new insights from the "flapper girls" of that era, so that they can continue to carry forward the feminist theory in today's society.
Keywords
The Great Gatsby, Feminism, Character analysis, Flapper girls
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Li,X. (2024). Feminist Perspectives on the Portrayal of "Jordan Baker" in The Great Gatsby . Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,41,230-235.
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