Bernice Bobs Her Hair Literary Response

Steve Epting
AP English
Bernice Bobs Her Hair Literary Response
In the 1920s there rose a new kind of woman. A woman that was not afraid to take chances, live on the edge, or flirt with guys. These women were called flappers. They were much different from the older women that were boring and didn’t do as much. This new rise of women spread very fast and it caused a revolution that ladies don’t have to abide by old rules and they can star to rebel against old ideas and do what they want to do.
In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Fitzgerald talks about the dance clubs back then. Many young people and old people went out to dance on Saturday night. In the story, Majorie’s cousin Bernice comes to visit for a little while. Bernice is boring and isn’t really outgoing as other girls, towards guys. “Men did not talk to her about kissable mouths, but she knew that they talked in some such way to other girls.” Bernice was not the most popular girl either and Majorie’s friends didn’t really care for her that much.
After some days Majorie began to get tired of the way that Bernice was acting and she began to complain to her mother. Bernice overheard her and she took what she said to heart. Bernice was ready to leave and Majorie gave a non shallant attitude and said that she needed to change the way that she was acting. She needed to stop living in the past times and get with the younger crowd. She gave her tips on boys, dancing, her clothes, eyebrows, and other forms of appearance that she needed to work on. After Bernice heard that, she became a new woman that could not be stopped.
This showed that the flappers of the 20s really took charge and set a trend. Many women wanted to be a woman that didn’t have to live by any rules.