Compare Willy Loman And Jay Gatsby

The father-son relationship and betrayal between Jay Gatsby and his father, Mr. Gatz, was quite different compared to that of Biff and Willy Loman. However, both relationships improved immensely when each character realized the amount of love they actually had for the other. Jay Gatsby had reinvented himself as a wealthy person instead of poor. In Gatsby’s youth “his parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all,” (Fitzgerald 98). So he left his parents, achieved his new state of wealth through a bootlegging business (Fitzgerald 133), and never returned home. After Gatsby’s death, his father came to see him immediately when he saw the obituary (Fitzgerald 167). This