Analyze the final quote of the novel: “gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. it eluded is then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther and one fine morning—so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past” (fitzgerald 189)

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

participle: dressed; modifies: bride.