During the early part of the twentieth century, there was a great deal of revolutions and advancements within society. Starting with women in many western countries gaining the right to vote during this time. This was also the start of what would become known as “The Roaring Twenties”. This was a time where there where massive changes particularly for women. Women stopped growing their hair out and instead many women cut their hair into a shoulder or ear length bob. Another change was that the dresses they wore had much higher hemlines something that by many more traditional people was seen as scandalous and overly sexual. During the previous Victorian era, women were always supposed to be pure and innocent. Sexuality of any kind, and especially women’s sexuality was never something that was supposed to be discussed at all. However, these were things that were beginning to happen in the nineteen- twenties, we see this in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby with people having a more realistic view that extramarital affairs due happen with men and with women. Both the characters Tom and Daisy have extramarital affairs and neither seemed to show as much shame as most people would have in the Victorian era. In the story of Ulysses by James Joyce, sexuality is front and center. Molly who is already married to Leopold thinks about multiple male suitors and even about females as well. Molly seems to be very comfortable with men and also seems to enjoy the fact that she enjoys the attentions of multiple men despite the fact that she is already married. Molly seems to represent a part of the female dynamic in the nineteen twenties known as “flappers”. These were mostly upper-class young women who cut or wore their hair very short, wore short loose dresses, drank, smoked, and generally had “looser” morals then women from the previous era would have. Molly seems to fit this idea of a woman with “loose” morals as she happily enjoys the company of several different men. https://www.thoughtco.com/flappers-in-the-roaring-twenties-1779240
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