Degree Type
Thesis
Date of Award
1998
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
English
First Advisor
Mary Helen Dunlop
Second Advisor
Mary Helen Dunlop
Abstract
That the women from the novels under discussion (The Great Gatsby, Dodsworth, The Mother's Recompense) are of the upper class makes a difference; as Scott Fitzgerald observed, the rich "are different from you and me ... and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand" ("The Rich Boy" 152).1 As I've studied the novels and the plight of women in general, I have needed to remind myself often that class, just as surely as time, is a variable separating me from these women. It has been an interesting exploration.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-6113
Publisher
Digital Repository @ Iowa State University, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu
Copyright Owner
Ellen Suzanne Protheroe
Copyright Date
1998
Language
en
Date Available
September 12, 2013
File Format
application/pdf
File Size
63 pages
Recommended Citation
Protheroe, Ellen S., "Daisy Buchanan, Fran Dodsworth, Kate Clephane: upper class women in three novels of the 1920s" (1998). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 186.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/186
Included in
American Literature Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons, Women's Studies Commons
