What is the significance of the debasement of women in The Great Gatsby? The early nineteen hundreds was a time of political reform for women. The Congressional Union for Women Suffrage was formed in 1914, the National Woman's Party was created in 1916, and the 19th Amendment, which granted women's suffrage, was ratified in 1920. Even though the crusade for women's rights was successful, the majority of the population still saw women as second-class citizens. F. Scott Fitzgerald …
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…eye was chosen. In the time when women were almost to the point of equality, Hollywood reverses the direction of the progress made by feminists like Jane Addams and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The hypocrisy of it all is that the movie addresses these very issues and the movie producers contributed to the subordination of women. Why is it that fifty years after The Great Gatsby takes place, women are still looked upon as subsidiary humans?