Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a group of the American novelists, they were called the Lost writers have participated in the First World War, they saw the cruelty of war, and realize the war brings the pain, these experiences let them feel disappointed at that time, a lot of Americans indulged in living a luxury and dissipation life, the American novelist Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald described it as the Jazz Age, and he portrayed the Jazz Age as a generation of “the beautiful and the damned” as the people of the age addicted to the joy. His work The Great Gatsby is also one of works that depict the disillusionment of American dream. In this novel he portrays a heroine Daisy who thinks money is king, and loves vanity, for a long time, Daisy is considered as selfishness, fickle betrayal by many people. This article will explore the characteristics of the victim under such a patriarchal society from the perspective of feminism, and combined with its particular cultural background to analysis and interpret the female character’s failed efforts to her love and helpless choice. 

Key words: feminism helplessness independence

Contents

Abstract

摘要

Introduction-5

Chapter 1 Background of The Great Gatsby-5

    1.1 The Background of The Great Gatsby-5

    1.2Francis Scott Fitzgerald and His The Great Gatsby-7

Chapter 2 One Main Feminist Work and the Development of Feminism at the Time of The Great Gatsby-9

    2.1 Virginia Woolf and A Room of One's Own-9

    2.2 The Development of Feminism in 1920s-12

Chapter 3 A Feminist Reading of the Character of Daisy-13

    3.1A Helpless Love and A Brave,Struggling Girl-13

    3.2Hypocritical Marriage and Poor Woman-15

    3.3Men’s Desire for Conquer and Women’s Melancholy-16

Chapter 4 A Comparative Study of the Other Female Characters in The Great Gatsby-17

    4.1Analyze the Character of Jordan Baker-17

    4.2Analyze the Character of Myrtle-18

    4.3A Comparison between Daisy and Jordan Baker-19

    4.4 A comparison between Daisy and Myrtle-20

Conclusion-20

Bibliography-21

Acknowledgments-23