The Flappers and the Faded Values: A Study of Women in the Fiction of Fitzgerald

The America of the 1920s was distinguished and damned for different reasons. The period was referred as, Roaring Twenties, the Jazz age, the Golden age and every title speaks about the spirit of the age. It was an age of transition with tremendous changes in art, politics, economy, and culture. People of the era viewed life with a new spectacle admiring money, social status, beauty, and freedom. Especially women of the 1920s had many changing roles. In the post war period the image of the Victorian women subsided and the new women appeared with great cultural advancements. Women‟s attitude towards life shocked the conservatives. Women assumed new roles as Flappers establishing a new culture and way of living. The current study focuses on Fitzgerald‟s portrayal of the modern women in the select novels, This Side of Paradise (TSP), The Beautiful and Damned (BD), and The Great Gatsby (GG).