BARRETO, Mayara Duarte.
Resumo:
This research‟s corpus is the masterpiece of the American novelist Francis Scott Key
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925). Its main objective is to describe and analyze the
gender relations in narrative, from a feminist perspective. So, it will use the theoretical
concepts of Zolin (2005), Moreira (1993), among others. It will also be described
aspects of changes and transitions that the United States passed at the time of the plot
and that are represented in Fitzgerald‟s novel. Some of them are: the emergence of The
Jazz Age, the Post First War prosperity, the American prohibition law, women‟s
condition in the XX century America and how they are represented in the narrative. It
will be analyzed the gender relations, highlighting as both men and women are
portrayed.