As the turn into the roaring twenties woman were starting to feel more free in their everyday lives. Women started to have often outings and drink throughout the course of the whole day was normal. In priors years to the twenties women were seen as respectful figures and relying on their husbands, but as the turn of the decade women started to wear scandalous clothing and not care what others thought of them. Along with wearing scandalous clothing women also had a lot of different outfits for each part of the day. With all these factors women also wanted what others had and affairs were a common way to move up a social class. All of these points are touched upon in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as women begin to turn the corner from
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One of the leading force behind the end of drinking was women, they say that alcohol was leading to violence back in the home. For a lot of the days of prohibition women and men still drank but “While millions of Americans obeyed the law and truly believed that Prohibition would eliminate all of society's ills, millions of others ignored Prohibition” (Manning). Even though women fought for the absence of alcohol they also disobeyed the law as frequently as men did. Clearly seen in The Great Gatsby while out on the town Daisy orders Tom to “Open the whiskey” (Fitzgerald 136). With the increase in alcohol woman started to rely less on their husbands and start to float …show more content…
Women not relying on their husbands as much meant that “Young women gained more autonomous social lives by going out, socializing in mixed groups, and dating a variety of people” (Warner). As women started to socialize they also started to challenge the boundaries of appropriate womanhood. This phenomena of affairs and wildly dating is clear and often in The Great Gatsby as Tom states “the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife...count me out” (Fitzgerald 137). Tom says this knowing Daisy is cheating on him and knowing that it is often at this time that there is an affair in the relationship. These affairs had many reasons for certain women and men, some financial some intimate
One of the leading force behind the end of drinking was women, they say that alcohol was leading to violence back in the home. For a lot of the days of prohibition women and men still drank but “While millions of Americans obeyed the law and truly believed that Prohibition would eliminate all of society's ills, millions of others ignored Prohibition” (Manning). Even though women fought for the absence of alcohol they also disobeyed the law as frequently as men did. Clearly seen in The Great Gatsby while out on the town Daisy orders Tom to “Open the whiskey” (Fitzgerald 136). With the increase in alcohol woman started to rely less on their husbands and start to float …show more content…
Women not relying on their husbands as much meant that “Young women gained more autonomous social lives by going out, socializing in mixed groups, and dating a variety of people” (Warner). As women started to socialize they also started to challenge the boundaries of appropriate womanhood. This phenomena of affairs and wildly dating is clear and often in The Great Gatsby as Tom states “the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife...count me out” (Fitzgerald 137). Tom says this knowing Daisy is cheating on him and knowing that it is often at this time that there is an affair in the relationship. These affairs had many reasons for certain women and men, some financial some intimate