Abstract：Francis Scott Fitzgerald is universally acknowledged as the chronicler and spokesman of the Jazz Age. In his masterpiece The Great Gatsby, through the portrayal of three women characters from different walks of life, education backgrounds, characteristics and temperaments, Fitzgerald vividly depicted the loneliness and the emptiness in the depths of those women’s hearts in the Jazz Age. This paper begins with an introduction to the social background and women position at that time，and then attempts to make a tentative study of these three female images to explore the common feminine values of different classes they represent in the age. At last, the paper points out Fitzgerald’s ambivalent attitudes toward the women of the Jazz Age.

Key words: Fitzgerald; women characters; the Jazz Age; feminine values

CONTENTS

Abstract

摘要

1. Introduction1

2. Feminine Values in the Jazz Age..1

2.1 Social Background

2.2 Women in the Jazz Age

3. A Golden Girl—Daisy.3

3.1 Her Love for Gatsby

3.2 Her Chase for Money

3.3 Her Transformation from an Innocent Girl to a Materialist

4. A Cynical Girl—Jordan.5

4.1 Her Haughty Image

4.2 Her Inferior Nature

4.3 The Contradiction between Her Image and Her Nature

5. A Vain Woman--Myrtle Wilson..7

  5.1 Her Social Aspiration

  5.2 Her Tragic Ending

6. Conclusion..9

Bibliography...11

Acknowledgements..12