Women of Gatsby

Daisy Buchanan is based on Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, Daisy is a beautiful young woman from Louisville, Kentucky. She is Nick’s cousin and Gatsby's obsession for love. Daisy was very popular with the military officers stationed near her home like Jay Gatsby. Gatsby lied about his background to Daisy he said he came from a wealthy family in to convince Daisy that he was worthy of her. Eventually Daisy fell in love with him also and they made love before Gatsby left to fight in the war. Daisy promised to wait for Gatsby, but when he came back she married Tom Buchanan.




Jordan Baker is Daisy’s friend a woman which Nick starts to like her in the middle of the novel. She is a golfer and represents one of the “new women” of the 1920s which is like boyish, and self-centered. Jordan is beautiful, but she is also dishonest like the time she cheated in order to win her first golf tournament and continually tries to go around the truth.



Myrtle Wilson is Tom’s lover her husband George owns a run-down garage in the valley of ashes. Myrtle tries to leave George for Tom to make her situation better. She also gets treated bad by Tom he hits her in front of people. She desires to have lots of money that is the main reason why she is so attracted to Tom and not to George.


In the 1920's when women were more independent and responsible for more things in the world than just keeping the house clean that was the mentality back in those days. Many women characters of the novel were represented in many ways. They represented how women lived in the 1920s. They were rebellious and foolish because that is when bootlegging was happening. Myrtle, Jordan, and Daisy in the novel they are the main women characters.