Gender Roles In The Great Gatsby
Good Afternoon Ms Atkinson and fellow peers, as you can see, the texts I have chosen to discuss with
you are To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Lullaby by
W. H . Auden, all of which have modernist themes, including conforming to traditional gender roles,
time and love. To the Lighthouse revolves around the lives of the Ramsay family who are at their
holiday house, hosting some guests, including Lily Briscoe (a painter) and Charles. The family are
faced with different obstacles throughout the day, Lily with a discouraging comment from Charles and
James oppositions with his father, but in the end, despite the differences, it is clear the Mr Ramsay
heavily depends on Mrs Ramsay. Ten years later, Mr ... Show more content on Helpwriting.net ...
H. Auden s Lullaby. In to the Lighthouse, we can see that Mrs Ramsay is unable to declare her love
for her husband, yet both of them knew that she loved him. As Mr Ramsay can be seen as a
representation of a typical modernist man, we see that like many other artists of the lost generation, he
is constantly plagued with insecurities, constantly seeking reassurance in the brokenness of the
fragmented society. In To the Lighthouse, we see that Mrs Ramsay wishes that James and Cam do not
grow any older, Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older! or Cam either , this is in contrast
to W. H. Auden s lullaby when he says, All the dreaded cards foretell, shall be paid, but from this
night, not a whisper, not a thought, not a kiss nor look be lost. , that even though it is fate that the
lovers will be separated, possibly by death, the author still wants to cherish the moments he can have
with his lover, and that he refuses to have any interruptions separating him and his lover till fate parts
them. W. H. Auden also writes, Time and fever burn away individual beauty stating that although
people may be extremely beautiful, but disease and time decays their beauty and ultimately, everyone
has the same ending point. Although the poet and Mrs Ramsay has conflicting attitudes about time and
love, both have an ominous feeling of an unavoidable end. Again, Woolf uses a mixture of shifting
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