Contents
Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………(1)
Introduction………………………………………………………………………….............(2)
1. Brief Introduction of Feminism…………………………………………………………….(4)
1.1 Definition of Feminism………………………………………………………………...........(4)
1.2 Features of Feminism………………………………………………………………………..(5)
2. Causes of the Formation of Daisy’s Images    ………………………………………………..(5)
2.1 Social Background of America in the 1920s    ………………………………………………..(5)
2.2 Development of Feminism    …………………………………………………………………..(7)
2.3 Daisy’ Personal Factors……………………………………………………………………...(8)
3. Embodiments of Daisy's Feminist Images in The Great Gatsby………………………….(9)
3.1 Daisy's Intelligence………………………………………………………………………...(10)
worshipping3.2 Daisy's Fashionable Image…………………………………………………………………(12)
3.3 Daisy's Money Worshipping………………………………………………………………..(14)
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..(18)
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………...(19)
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………..(21)

Interpretation of Daisy’s Images in
The Great Gatsby from the Perspective of Feminism
Abstract: F. Scott Fitzgerald, the famous American novelist in the 1920s, is known as the spokesman and laureate of the“Jazz Age”. The Great Gatsby, his masterpiece, is considered an American classic and is still the hot subject by the critics. However, One can readily acknowledge that in general the women characters are quite secondary to the males. There are even negative characterizations of women, especially Daisy. So this thesis attempts to re-interpret it from a feminist perspective to throw a new light on the study of the text. It first introduces the writer and the work and the aspects from which the thesis explores. Then it gives a brief introduction of the definition and features of feminism, and next, this thesis explains the causes of the formation of Daisy’s images and makes a deep analysis of the Daisy’s images. The conclusion points out its significance and further research orientation of the thesis. The author is aimed to help the readers understand that only when women are brave enough to pursue what they want and challenge fate can they gain happiness and realize their own value.
Key words: The Great Gatsby; feminism; Daisy’s images; fashionable
从女性主义视角解读
《了不起的盖茨比》中黛西形象
摘要：弗.司各特.菲茨杰拉德，这位二十年代美国著名的小说家，被誉为“爵士时代”的代言人和桂冠诗人。他的代表作《了不起的盖茨比》被认为是一部美国经典，而且还是评论界的热点。尽管如此，人们可以很明显地感受到小说中的女性人物都是依附于男性而存在，对女性都是负面的刻画，对黛西的刻画更是如此。本文尝试以女性主义为视角，用文本细读的方式重新解读《了不起的盖茨比》，以期对这部作品有一个全新的认识。引言首先介绍了作家和作品及本论文的研究方向，其次文章介绍了女性主义的定义和特征，重点分析了黛西形象形成的因素及其各种形象；结语指出了本文的意义与研究方向。作者旨在让读者明白女性只有勇于自己所想，挑战命运，才能获得幸福，实现自我价值。
关键词：了不起的盖茨比；女性主义；黛西形象; 时尚

Introduction
F. Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940) is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America’s ‘Jazz Age’ during the 1920s. He so vividly captured the mood and manners of his age and successfully drew a portrait of the American twenties through his works that he is always remembered as the spokesman and laureate of the Jazz Age. Together with William and Eernest Hemingway, he was ranked one of the three prominent novelists in modern American literature. “no other novelists were, collectively, so influential in the development of modern American fiction as Gertude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Eernest Hemingway”(Eliott, 1988:873). Today Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the best writers in American literature, and his The Great Gatsby is a good illustration.
The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, has been considered as a great masterpiece of American fictions until now. It portrays the life style and spiritual affairs of American youths vividly after the First World War. The story tells us a young man, named Gatsby, who comes from the lower class struggles to fulfill his “ideal”—to marry a beautiful and also rich
lady of the upper class, Daisy, but finally is abandoned by her. As matter of this book, the English famous poet and critic T.S Eliot ever commented that this novel was the first step that American fiction had taken since Henry James (Wilson, 1933:310). It’s true that this fiction display profoundly an American social style in the Jazz Age and coins for a whole era of American history, which is presented as a corrupt, amoral and violent time. So this book has been popular with many readers and critics and considered as his finest works of all.
Nowadays, more and more studies on Fitzgerald and his works have appeared and they give us a great chance to read him, understand him and study him. However, although there are many studies on The Great Gatsby in China, the studies are incomplete and unequal, especially the studies from the perspective of feminism. Taking Daisy as an example, many studies are negative characterizations of Daisy. They hold that Daisy is a shallow, foolish, careless, unworthy woman. I feel unsatisfied because the assessment is not objective, and there are few systematic and detailed studies from the feminist perspective to study Daisy’s image.
So in this thesis, I will attempt a detailed and systematic study of Daisy’s images from the feminist point of view and give Daisy an objective and equal assessment. At first, I will introduce the definition and features of feminism. Then I’ll explain the causes of the formation of Daisy’s images and make a deep analysis of her changeable images from her intelligence, fashion and money worshipping . From this thesis, we can be able to see that Daisy is not a stereotypical, dull but complicated, individual woman.