WOMAN AS ‘MOON’, MAN AS ‘SUN’
WOMAN AS ‘MOON’, MAN AS ‘SUN’

Summary/Abstract: Our intention in this paper is to connect the view of woman as moon and man as sun to the traditional gender roles which cast men as rational, strong, and protective and cast women as irrational or emotional, weak, nurturing, submissive, gentle, virginal, angelic. Woman is seen in patriarchal ideology as the other, the marginalized. In manly works, such as Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise, a woman is described as a mute object of desire (woman as moon), dominated by man’s gaze(man as sun).

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