Belkacemi, IlhemHadad, Mordjana2018-06-262018-06-262016http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3521The Jazz Age is a remarkable stage in America's history especially when it is related to women. During the Roaring Twenties, Women have variously been reconsidered from male perspectives. F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the main recorders of that period, depicts the new emerging category of women known as Flappers. Those women are generally seen in a negative way and almost depicted as feminine. however, Fitzgerald's fiction asserts the positive image of the Flappers since they represent femininity in terms of constructing a feminist identity in front of masculine mistreatment. To grapple with the theme of searching for feminism through femininity, this work analyzes Fitzgerald's fictitious heroines, Gloria Gilbert, in The Beautiful and Damned (1922), and Nicole Warren, in tender is the Night (1934) . Adopting a feminist reading, both heroines represent the main issues of the Flapper's suffering. Therefore, this work depends on "Gender essentialism" as the feminist approach which defines femininity as the essence of Feminism and on the freudian psychoanalysis theory of the three components of the psyche, the Id, the ego, and the super-ego. To assert the image of Fitzgerald's fictitious heroines as females who serve all times and not only the Jazz Age since their main motivation for constructing feminist identity is that of increasing the value of feminine ideals.enNovel : Nicole Warren : Tender is the nightNovel : F. Scott Fitzgerald : The beautiful and damnedOther