... 7 she chooses Tom over Gatsby. She lets Gatsby take blame over killing Myrtle which in the end gets Gatsby killed. Jordan Baker is different from the other girls in the novel and most women of the 1920s. Jordan is portrayed as hard, independent, and confident. She does not put all her time into a relationship like the other girls. Instead, her time ... Gatsby all the women had different characteristics, but something they had in common was dishonesty. Fitzgerald seemed to think that men were superior to women, and that showed throughout the novel. Although the women had negative charact...

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... met his soon to be wife Zelda Sayre. F. Scott Fitzgerald was never recognized as a great writer until the 1950's and 1960's nearly fifteen years after his death. After a successful first novel, This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald "began a destructive lifestyle marked by drinking, partying, and overspending"(Magill 1032). In May of 1924 Fitzgerald and his wife spent five years abroad in Europe ... ...

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