Women, Thy Name Is Reality: Fitzgerald's Women in The Great Gatsby And Tender Is the Night

• Main Authors: Yang, Grace Li-Ling, 楊麗玲
• Other Authors: Nicholas Koss
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1996
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33922455052715107538

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 英國語文學研究所 === 84 === Analyzing Fitzgerald's women from a different critical approachbased on the two concepts of "social identity" and "emotional identity,"this thesis intends to propose that women in The Great Gatsby and TenderIs the Night constitute a family of reality. Daisy Fay Buchanan is an upper class sister changed hues, whose identity fluctuates from emotionalto social, romantic to socio-materialistic. Myrtle Wilson is a poor working-class sister who always yearns for the symbolic discourse of thearistocracy. Nicole Warren Diver is a leisure- class sister who initiallysituates herself in the context of emotional principles and eventuallyidentifies herself with the symbolic discourse in which she is a part.Rosemary Hoyt is the daughter of this family, who, nourished by its socialidentity, practices and follows it accordingly. Baby Warren is the head ofthis family, whose identity is steadfastly located in the stream of thehard, amoral reality. Read in this way, contrary to Fitzgerald's male protagonists who are universally acknowledged dreamers, his femalecharacters are unrecognized realists.