Woman Flapper In The Roaring Twenties Reflected In Fitzgerarld’s The Great Gatsby (1925): A Feminist Approach

The study is about Woman Flapper in Roaring Twenties reflected in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925): A Feminist Approach. The research is proposed to analyze about the characteristics of women flapper and the power struggle of women flapper in The Great Gatsby Novel by F Scott Fitzgerald. Dealing with problem statement above, the objective of the study is to analyze the novel based on the feminist approach. They consist of primary data sources and secondary data sources. The source of primary data is The Great Gatsby novel written by F Scott Fitzgerald. The sources of secondary data are taken from other sources, such as virtual sources, books of literary theory and especially relate to the feminism of literature. The researcher can collect the data from the novel while analyzing, it has some steps that the researcher have to do, stated by Gore in http://classroom.synonym.com, the researcher used Feminist Approach, because it is relevant with the problem that the researcher want to analyze women flapper and the power struggle of woman flapper in Roaring twenties. Based on the analysis, the researcher took a conclusion. Women flapper happens because of the reason is Roaring Twenties, enjoying the new freedoms ushered in by the end of the First World War and the dawn of new era of prosperity, urbanism, and consumerism, and they react with their power struggle of being women, we can observe it using Feminist Approach, especially Social Feminism