It goes without saying that in modern sociolinguistics there is a consensus with regard to the fact that the language of males and females differs. The initial sections of the article briefly address the peculiarities of gendered speech as to provide a theoretical background for checking whether the causative get is used similarly or differently by men and women in the two of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels: The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night. The basic expectation formed is that the motifs for triggering the use of causative get are of social rather than structural nature. Before the analysis is carried out, the group of the English periphrastic causatives are sketchily characterized. Generally, what has been found is that there is a clear, socially-motivated pattern of how F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the causative get in the dialogued occurrences in his two novels. Get is a characteristic of men's talk, but it is also the expected form while female characters address male ones -hence the verb is labelled as "masculine" get. Moreover, it has been discovered that there does not seem to be any particular pattern in either the speaker's mood or the speaker's attitude expressed that would trigger the use of the causative verb in question. Yet, what seems to be a well-defined tendency, when it comes to the speaker-hearer power relation, is that the speaker usually assumes a more superior position than the hearer when he or she uses the causative verb. The superiority in most cases is strongly associated with masculinity. Hence, what is postulated is that the causative get is labelled not only as "masculine" but also as "superior". Keywordssociolinguistics, language and gender, periphrastic causative verbs, causative get, F. Scott Fitzgerald, power-relation, masculinity and superiority Introduction A major topic that has recently been in the focus of the sociolinguistic analysis is the mutual relations between the ways in which particular languages are used and the social roles performed by men and women who use those languages. It has been universally recognized that men and women speaking a given language use it differently. The question is about the source and the nature of those differences. Do the differences in the gendered speech derive from the language structure? Or, alternatively, do those differences simply reflect the manner in which the two sexes interact socially with each other? As Włodarczyk-Stachurska (2011a, p. 486) claims, the positive answer to the first question would basically confirm Whorfian hypothesis (1929), "acknowledging the close relationship between language and culture, maintaining that they were inextricably related so that you could not understand one without a knowledge of the other". In turn, as Włodarczyk-Stachurska claims, the affirmative answer to the latter question would undoubtedly emphasise the role of social dependencies as the factors playing the most significant role in shaping the language of men and women (ibid.).