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ABSTRACT
The main purpose of my TFG is to study in depth the changes that
occured in women’s
life during such a memorable period in the US history as the
Roaring Twenties were.
Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine some of the
social changes that women
experimented after orld ar !, specifically in the "merica of the
#$%&s. !n order to do
that, the paper has been di'ided in the following sections( the
opportunities that women
had in that period of time, women )s self image * including the
changes in clothes or
hairstyles *, achie'ements of important women, and female role
models of the #$%&s.
Finally, there is a case study in which ! obser'e the most
important women characters
that appear in F. Scott Fit+gerald)s no'el The Great Gatsby .
oreo'er, ! will explore the
male sexism or patriarchal ideology in the no'el and ! will ma-e
an analysis based on aclose reading of the text. Therefore, ! will
analyse the no'el through a series of e'ents
and examples that appear in the no'el concerning the three women
protagonists /aisy,
0ordan and yrtle1 and that illustrate the misogyny of the
narrator.
Key words: women, emancipation, twenties, Fit+gerald, Gatsby,
/aisy, yrtle, 0ordan.
2l prop3sit principal del meu TFG 4s estudiar en profunditat els
can'is 5ue es 'an
produir en la 'ida de les dones durant un per6ode tan memorable
en la hist3ria dels2stats Units com eren els bo7os anys 'int. 8er
tant, l)ob7ectiu d)a5uest treball 4s
examinar alguns dels can'is socials 5ue les dones 'an
experimentar despr4s de la
8rimera Guerra undial, concretament a l)"m9rica dels anys
#$%&. 8er a fer aix3, el
document s)ha di'idit en les seg:ents seccions( les oportunitats
5ue les dones tenien en
a5uest per6ode de temps, la pr3pia imatge de les dones *
incloent els can'is en la roba o
pentinats *, els 9xits aconseguits de les dones i el paper de
dones important de la d9cada
de #$%&. Finalment, hi ha un cas d)estudi en el 5ual obser'o
els personatges femenins
m4s importants 5ue apareixen en la no'el;la de F. Scott
Fit+gerald El gran Gatsby . "
m4s a m4s, explorar4 el sexisme mascul6 o ideologia patriarcal
en la no'el;la i far4 un
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