The great gatsby - how does the setting impact the role of women in text?

Well. These women are captured by the affluence and wealth that permeates their existence. They are careless and self-absorbed. Their lifestyles also permit them to have fairly free lives, which was different from most women of the time. They were not motherly or the housewife type. Their setting has allowed them to take on roles of superiority accompanied by reckless and lavish behaviors. They feel as if they are equals in the world of men and not inferiors.