Chivalrous Courtly Love in Fitzgerald's Works: A Feminist Reading of the Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night

The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night are the most famous works Francis Scott Fitzgerald has ever written. Women characters of these two works are widely-accepted as money-worshippers, insincere women and even vampire, and they are believed to be responsible for the heroes' death or deterioration. By adopting a feminist approach, this paper tries to analyze a typical mode of the relationship between two sexes frequented these two novelschivalrous courtly loveto demonstrate the reality of patriarchal domination and repression imposed on women. It is intended to call on more understanding of those women characters in the novels as well as women in reality.