How Does Portuguese Present The Independent Voice In The Great Gatsby

Both texts ,The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald and EBB’s Sonnets from the Portuguese express the differences in the time periods and the changing social context. Though the different periods of time, the values and perspectives were conflicting .The values of love, time and social norms, where all encountered by the characters within the text.
The texts have different perspectives on the similar values of the time. These values were challenged by EBB’s Sonnets of the Portuguese and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby . The Great Gatsby was written in 1920’s, which was known as the Jazz Age. The new arising period of the post-World War 1 began and the values of the time where mainly materialistic and achieving idealistic goals set by society and the

EBB displayed a strong feminist voice throughout her sonnets which was contradictory of the values of the time, and the social norms of a male dominated society. In the Great Gatsby, Nick Caraway had a unbiased opinion about the life of Gatsby and was internal challenged on Gatsby’s situation with his love for Daisy. In comparison EBB throughout the sonnets has a strong voice with her language ,”Don’t not say” In sonnets XIV demonstrate her independent voice in comparison to the social norms, of women being timid and being able to be obedient to men/husbands. This is also seen in TGG with Jordan Baker. She is strong female character seen as an independent and reliant on her self-abilities of her career Golf. Jordan Baker is resilient figure that challenges the social norms, of pursuing towards getting married and having children and serving husband. Even with all this ,The Sonnets give a far stronger portrait of women as having the right to they own aspirations and identity. In 18th century it would be greatly difficult to openly write a love relationship especially being a women. Due to the male-dominated tradition of love poems going back to Theocritus, which to express her story, reflecting , “The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,/Those of my own life”, and in Sonnet XIII remarks “Nay, let the silence of my womanhood/Commend my woman-love to thy belief”. Even though

Sonnet 28, tracing the story of her love through the pile of love letters from Robert, gives an economical and powerful image of her own transformation from doubting individual to one who has experienced the intimacy of lovemaking . Her honest appraisal of herself is also evident in Sonnet 32 where she compares her no-longer-young body with an “out-of-tune worn viol”. Whereas Daisy’s identity is all in appearances and the glamour of her physical charms. EBB rather sees love, even physical love, as based more on the soul’s intensity ,“great souls, at one stroke, may do and doat.”)The “master-hands” of the genuine lover knows how to bring her to life and she accepts that to judge by outward appearances is to wrong the nature of love. This expresses how values of the time was based on identity and how individuals and society viewed