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The Incomplete Modern Women 　　The Great Gatsby is known as a Chronicle of the Jazz Age. This paper combines the analysis of the female characters with the special historical backgrounds in the 1920s. It attempts to find out the progressive points of the three females as modern women as well as the incompleteness showed on them. It is wished that the indulging roots of the female characters can be understood, and a more objective appraisal of them can be given through this thesis. 　　Key words: The Great Gatsby, female, incomplete modern woman, Jazz Age 　　 　　I. The main female characters in the Novel 　　 　　In the novel the three main female characters are Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson. They respectively come from the upper, middle and lower class and own distinctive dispositions. However, they share some common qualities--- seeking after vanity, money worship, frivolous indulgence and so on.① Daisy is the wife of Tom, who is a wealthy olive player. In an accident Daisy hits Wilson. Gatsby shoulders the responsibility and is killed by Wilson’s husband. Jordan Baker is a friend of Daisy. She keeps the ambiguous relationship with Nick. Myrtle Wilson is the wife of a small proprietor of a garage. Due to her vanity, she becomes Tom’s lover. At last, she is hit by Tom’s car, which is being driven by Daisy. 　　 　　Ⅱ. Daisy Buchanan as an Incomplete Modern Woman of upper class 　　 　　The imperfection of Daisy is firstly displayed in her money-worship attitude. Aspirations or morals are far from her. She lacks of the basic sincerity and her heart is overwhelmed by money.② Spiritual emptiness leads her to regard money as the most important thing and the safest guarantee for maintaining a luxury life. When she chooses her husband, money is the most crucial factor. Nick comments it as this: “It was full of money---that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbal’s song of it. High in a white palace the king’s daugh