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Written Task #2: The Great Gatsby
Chosen prescribed question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
Title of the text for analysis: “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part of the course it refers to: Part 4 – Literature
My critical response will:
● Explain in detail the most important contextual aspects of the novel The Great Gatsby,
especifically regarding with changes in women’s roles and position within the American
society in the 1920s
● Demonstrate, through Fitzgerald’s characterization of Daisy Buchanan, how women with
old values were seen as uninterested, powerless and insignificant
● Exemplify, through Fitzgerald's characterization of Jordan Baker, how women in the
1920s were more outgoing, independent and confident
● Show how despite the fact that there is a “New Woman”, Fitzgerald still portrays women
as foolish and unfaithful despite their values with the aim of empowering male position
Written Task #2: The Great Gatsby
Chosen prescribed question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
Title of the text for analysis: “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part of the course it refers to: Part 4 – Literature
My critical response will:
● Explain in detail the most important contextual aspects of the novel The Great Gatsby,
especifically regarding with changes in women’s roles and position within the American
society in the 1920s
● Demonstrate, through Fitzgerald’s characterization of Daisy Buchanan, how women with
old values were seen as uninterested, powerless and insignificant
● Exemplify, through Fitzgerald's characterization of Jordan Baker, how women in the
1920s were more outgoing, independent and confident
● Show how despite the fact that there is a “New Woman”, Fitzgerald still portrays women
as foolish and unfaithful despite their values with the aim of empowering male position
