Before the 1920s, women had very few rights in politics, education, sports, and fashion. Suffragettes long fought against those who said they would never get what they wanted. In this essay, we will also connect to The Great Gatsby to see how F. Scott Fitzgerald showed examples of the struggles women went through when coming into the world. The most important right that many women fought for was their right to vote. Men thought women were too emotional and uneducated. Women were then much stronger than men thought. They "took care of each other in childbirth and illness...they worked from sunrise to sunset...and tended the land the men had cleared" without the men appreciating the hard work they accomplished (a century of struggle). If there was a feeling of weakness, they would have stopped. These women quickly found the will to launch the suffrage movement. This was not the first time they had organized a group, "it was in the abolitionist movement that women first learned to organize [and] hold public meetings." » (century of struggle). “Suffrage for women was first seriously proposed in the United States in July 1848 at the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. » (women's history). This was the beginning of the struggle for women to become equal to men. “During the war, women were the most silent victims. » This quote was very true about women (women's history). During the war, it was obvious that men were victims since they actually had to go to war and die for their country, but women were still at home, being treated meanly all over the world, with no choice. "Women took jobs in factories to support the war and took more action... middle of paper ... her laughter, her gestures, her assertions became more violently affected from moment to moment and as she was expanding. the room grew smaller around her until she seemed to spin on a noisy, creaking pivot in the smoky air” (Fitzgerald 35). Myrtle represents women's "need" to be known for having money and wealth in order to be much more popular. Myrtle wears the dress to hide her current status and act as if she is one of the rich, but in reality she is poor and naive, but the transformation of the dress changes her into rich and vain. In conclusion, Fitzgerald did an amazing job of depicting all aspects of life in the 1920s in his book through his characters. Women have truly made a change not only in their time but in today's society. Women are more willing to do what they want without any restrictions limiting their potential..