A feminist reading of Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams

Lihua Zhang; Liying Cui

doi:10.4304/tpls.4.3.513-517

A feminist reading of Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams

Lihua Zhang, Liying Cui

School of Foreign Languages

Beijing Institute of Technology

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

1 Citation (Scopus)

Abstract

Winter Dreams, one of F· S· Fitzgerald's short stories, tells about a young man's dream about a "golden Girl" Judy Jones. To read the story from a feminist perspective, it exposes misogyny in Fitzgerald's text. Judy's transformation from a beautiful flapper, a rebellious young girl, and a luring Circe, into a meek creature of "angel in the house", indicates that even in the 1920s of American society, women still have no ways out except to surrender to the dominant patriarchal ideology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	513-517
Number of pages	5
Journal	Theory and Practice in Language Studies
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4304/tpls.4.3.513-517
Publication status	Published - 2014

Keywords

Feminism
Men
Misogyny
Women

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.4304/tpls.4.3.513-517

Cite this

@article{966051300d4946e8a265104e32300da5,

title = "A feminist reading of Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams",

abstract = "Winter Dreams, one of F· S· Fitzgerald's short stories, tells about a young man's dream about a {"}golden Girl{"} Judy Jones. To read the story from a feminist perspective, it exposes misogyny in Fitzgerald's text. Judy's transformation from a beautiful flapper, a rebellious young girl, and a luring Circe, into a meek creature of {"}angel in the house{"}, indicates that even in the 1920s of American society, women still have no ways out except to surrender to the dominant patriarchal ideology.",

keywords = "Feminism, Men, Misogyny, Women",

author = "Lihua Zhang and Liying Cui",

year = "2014",

doi = "10.4304/tpls.4.3.513-517",

language = "English",

volume = "4",

pages = "513--517",

journal = "Theory and Practice in Language Studies",

issn = "1799-2591",

publisher = "Academy Publication",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - A feminist reading of Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams

AU - Zhang, Lihua

AU - Cui, Liying

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - Winter Dreams, one of F· S· Fitzgerald's short stories, tells about a young man's dream about a "golden Girl" Judy Jones. To read the story from a feminist perspective, it exposes misogyny in Fitzgerald's text. Judy's transformation from a beautiful flapper, a rebellious young girl, and a luring Circe, into a meek creature of "angel in the house", indicates that even in the 1920s of American society, women still have no ways out except to surrender to the dominant patriarchal ideology.

AB - Winter Dreams, one of F· S· Fitzgerald's short stories, tells about a young man's dream about a "golden Girl" Judy Jones. To read the story from a feminist perspective, it exposes misogyny in Fitzgerald's text. Judy's transformation from a beautiful flapper, a rebellious young girl, and a luring Circe, into a meek creature of "angel in the house", indicates that even in the 1920s of American society, women still have no ways out except to surrender to the dominant patriarchal ideology.

KW - Feminism

KW - Men

KW - Misogyny

KW - Women

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84901232529&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.4304/tpls.4.3.513-517

DO - 10.4304/tpls.4.3.513-517

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84901232529

SN - 1799-2591

VL - 4

SP - 513

EP - 517

JO - Theory and Practice in Language Studies

JF - Theory and Practice in Language Studies

IS - 3

ER -

A feminist reading of Fitzgerald's Winter Dreams

Abstract

Keywords

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this