The Great Gatsby Comparison Essay
Akankwasa Aryabaho
Mrs. Kutschman
English 3s
3/17/2016
To understand The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald a reader will find it helpful to know some details about Fitzgerald's life and experiences. F Scott Fitzgerald fawned on the rich; that he was a mongrel of letters; that being tarred by his self-destructive relating this to Gatsby who is also rich and mainly wanting love.(an american sublime)
“F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is regarded as one of the best American writers of the 20th century.”(wikipedia) Many of the main characters in the novel The Great Gatsby are similar to people who impacted Fitzgerald’s life. He compares himself in two of the main characters, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. He also illustrates his wife as Daisy in the novel.
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby have strong opinions of alcohol. Gatsby is an anti-alcoholic while Fitzgerald is the exact opposite.“First …show more content…
Gatsby can be said to green with hate over the fact that he lost his beloved woman of his life, Daisy to Tom. He is also jealous of the “old money” people he invites to his big parties. This obsession with money and his opinion that Daisy rejected him because he wasn’t rich is what drove him to get money. This desire for money brings out the evil in Gatsby’s character, because of the illegal and immoral means by which he got his money through his connections to Wolfsheim. When Gatsby became rich enough to move into his own mansion in West Egg. He would watch at night “a green light, minute and far away, that was at the end of a dock”(26). This light, the green light at Daisy’s house and the “green breast of the new world”(189) symbolized hope to Gatsby, a chance to be with his love, to revive the past with Daisy, and a promise of his dream to being reunited with the American
Mrs. Kutschman
English 3s
3/17/2016
To understand The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald a reader will find it helpful to know some details about Fitzgerald's life and experiences. F Scott Fitzgerald fawned on the rich; that he was a mongrel of letters; that being tarred by his self-destructive relating this to Gatsby who is also rich and mainly wanting love.(an american sublime)
“F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is regarded as one of the best American writers of the 20th century.”(wikipedia) Many of the main characters in the novel The Great Gatsby are similar to people who impacted Fitzgerald’s life. He compares himself in two of the main characters, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. He also illustrates his wife as Daisy in the novel.
Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby have strong opinions of alcohol. Gatsby is an anti-alcoholic while Fitzgerald is the exact opposite.“First …show more content…
Gatsby can be said to green with hate over the fact that he lost his beloved woman of his life, Daisy to Tom. He is also jealous of the “old money” people he invites to his big parties. This obsession with money and his opinion that Daisy rejected him because he wasn’t rich is what drove him to get money. This desire for money brings out the evil in Gatsby’s character, because of the illegal and immoral means by which he got his money through his connections to Wolfsheim. When Gatsby became rich enough to move into his own mansion in West Egg. He would watch at night “a green light, minute and far away, that was at the end of a dock”(26). This light, the green light at Daisy’s house and the “green breast of the new world”(189) symbolized hope to Gatsby, a chance to be with his love, to revive the past with Daisy, and a promise of his dream to being reunited with the American