Sexual Love
- Created by: Honor Burke
- Created on: 09-02-20 17:24
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- Sexual Love
- Myrtle Wilson and Tom
- She wore 'a brown figured muslin, which stretched tight over her rather wide hips'
- vs Daisy and Jordan: 'they were both in white'
- 'She carried her flesh sensuously
- The only characters with sex appeal
- It was 'as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering'
- 'She wet her lips, and ... spoke to her husband in a soft, coarse voice'
- 'Her left breast was swinging loose like a flap'
- 'Suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom'
- The Flapper
- This 1920s trend was attributed to the decline in marriage rates
- Often sexually active
- Divorce rate increased in the 1920s
- Young women became more independent
- In the 1920s the annual marriage rates were 99 per 1000 single women
- The Flea, To His Coy Mistress, The Scrutiny, A Song (Absent from thee)
- Myrtle Wilson and Tom
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