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Women Under Gazes in The Great Gatsby
YU Meng-yi, ZHONG Jing-dong
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2023.06.003
School of Chinese Language and Culture, Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, China School of English, Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, China
Much more than simple viewing, gaze, which is a kind of concentrated thorough long-term viewing, makes the gazer and the gazed establish a complicated power relationship. Frequently, women are in a position of being gazed at by others instead of taking the initiative to have a counter gaze. Consequently, they are confronted with abnormal self identity construction and alienation under the gazes of others and the self gaze brought by others’ gazes. This is fully revealed in the experiences of three representative female characters in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. This paper elaborates on their experiences and the relative consequences under gazes—deviation of femininity and other aspects, in the hope of providing a refreshing perspective for the study on this novel, gaze and gender issues.
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, gaze, deviation of femininity, materialistic, aphasia
Journal of Literature and Art Studies, June 2023, Vol. 13, No. 6, 405-409
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