Girls and Their Strive for Perfection

Every Girl strives to be perfect. Girls in my generation now, have different views on what it means to be perfect, and how exactly to get to the so called "level of perfection" status. Girls find their vision of perfect as a necessity not a want, so in time girls turn into teenagers, they become even more self conscious as they age. For instance, girls find that being a model, or having the body of a model is the definition of what perfect is or should look like in their perspective of things. Also, having the impression that having to look like a model is a must, changes the way girls even look at not only themselves as people, but their peers as well. Once girls start to change their mentality of how they look, it can spread low self esteem to their friends as well. This can be a danger to many girls physically and mentally because of the peer pressure girls have to go through in their lives.

            In relation to The Great Gatsby written by F.Scott Fitzgerald, the article relates to this novel through the theme of the American dream and conformity. In the novel, Gatsby’s vision of the “American dream” is to fit in with the people Daisy associates herself with in order to become closer to Daisy as the days go by. Gatsby’s way of conforming into society is that he became rich, and fit in with a society where it is considered normal to have a big amount of luxury handed to you at your feet. Gatsby’s pressure to conform into a society of people, who have money, is equally as similar to the pressure put upon girls to be perfect, whether it come from a magazine, TV or even peers, it starts with one person. Yourself.

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