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Throughout the book Gender roles in America in the 1920’s are looked at through many different ways. This was a time when gender roles were dependent on where your rank was in society. Woman’s rights at this time are just becoming a big deal. When Nick talks about the woman at the party being carried out by their husbands kicking and screaming it tells you that men had much more power over woman and were generally not afraid to show it. Most of the women in this book don’t especially seem to care how they are treated as long as they are with older men who have more money and liquor. Throughout the book so far it seems like men treat love and woman like a prize to won while woman are a little more romantic, however; social class does play a huge part in gender roles. Two questions I have would be, how are gender expectations different now? Were woman judged as much on their income as men were?Tom and Mr. Gatsby are richer and can act like they're on top of the world since they have a lot of power. They differ from a much nicer, working class man like Mr. Wilson. When Nick talks about the party at Gatsby’s, he talks about the groups people are split up into. While the richer people with more connections stand in groups pretending to care about what the people around them are saying nick decides to walk towards the back where there are other people standing alone. This shows how important social standing was in these days.