Being a Woman

To Own and to Be Owned – The Question of Ownership in "The Great Gatsby"

Ana Banu, Ruxandra Pană

Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

DOI https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/12

Pages 183–196

Abstract

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby is in a constant quest for ownership, from accumulating wealth to winning Daisy over. This paper aims to briefly examine the question of ownership between Gatsby's material possessions and his desire for emotional ownership of Daisy, taking into account the partnerships and love triangles that appear between the characters, as reflections of various power dynamics.

Keywords —

ownership · materialism · old money · new money · feminism

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Banu, A., & Pană, R. (2024). To Own and to Be Owned – The Question of Ownership in "The Great Gatsby". Dialogos, 41, 183–196. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/12

Banu, Ana, and Ruxandra Pană. “To Own and to Be Owned – The Question of Ownership in "The Great Gatsby".” Dialogos, vol. 41, 2024, pp. 183–96, https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/12.

Banu, Ana, and Ruxandra Pană. 2024. “To Own and to Be Owned – The Question of Ownership in "The Great Gatsby".” Dialogos 41: 183–96. https://doi.org/10.24818/DLG/2024/41/12.

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