as well as in Fitzgeralds time, men will have affairs outside of their marriages, and the wife, falls victim to this violation of faith. Daisy falls victim to Toms affair with Myrtle: Daisys affection for Tomwas soon shattered by his breech of her trust (Fryer 51). Matters take an abrupt turn in the novel however, when Daisys sudden insistence for honesty emerges. At the hotel in the city, when Gatsby pressures her into proclaiming that she never loved Tom she can no longer bear the anxiety. She refuses to deny her love of Tom. Daisys sudden, simple respect for the truth is startling to the reader because Nicks perceptions of her throughout the novel are so very limited to her superficial manner her stubborn honesty is a logical outgrowth of her inner struggle to resolve conflicting needs. It is a brief, futile attempt to declare emotional independence (Fryer 54).Of course after this unpleasant, yet necessary upheaval, Daisy retreats into her melancholy and monotonous life of superficiality, leaving behind her lover as well as a mangled body in the streets of an unforgiving city. [Daisy] is a victim of a complex network of needs and desires: she deserves more pity than blame (Fryer 55). Daisys perplexity over her relationships with both Gatsby and Tom reflect the gender confusion in Fitzgeralds time. Fitzgerald portrays Daisy as a victim of a society in which she has no voice.Villareal 3The women in the works of Hemingway and Steinbeck are indestructible. Hemingway very much casts a personal net of emotion upon the relationships and women created in his novels. Hemingway works out his feelings of a true love affair in Italy in A Farewell to Arms, with himself as the main character and Catherine Barkley portraying her real world counterpart, Agnes H. von Kurowsky, as an indestructible woman who stays faithful until the end, despite the bitterness of the end of the real relationship. Hemingway did truly fall in love with a...
