In reading this chapter, there was one main theme throughout. She kept talking about the New Women, and if my understanding serves me right, The Great Gatsby is arguing that the New Women is actually a bad shift towards women, and they need to continue to be contained. For example, "they were never quite the same ones in physical person, but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been here before." This I felt was both a push and a pull for both sides. It was beginning to show the removal of the "old women", who were much more proper, and all looked roughly the same. This part begins to also demonstrate how that even with this wave of the New Women, they are still suppressed into a social class, and still look roughly the same. In the end, women are still trying to rise up, but they are also still heavily repressed.
Christian
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