《了不起的盖茨比》中的黛西似乎集中了两种复杂的品性于一体:一方面她是美国爵士时代典型的追求个性和自主“新潮女子”,另一方面,她又是被动、逃避,“无力”的女性。文章以波德利亚的消费文化观点分析“新潮女性”,认为消费社会对女性的“物化”是黛西“无力”的根源。
Daisyin The Great Gats by seems to possess two contradictory characteristics: she is both adefiant,self-centered Flapper in the Jazz Age,and apassive, weakes capist. This essay seeks to argue, through the an alysis of the Flappers in the consumer society in accordance with Baudrillard; stheory of consumerism,that the reification of women is the fundamental cause of Daisy's"weakness".