Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And I Too Sing America

America the "land of the free and home of the brave” (Scott Key). With its mountains like propelling spears of naked rock piercing the heavens. An “unestablished land” of profound natural beauty and limitless opportunity. In snuck the “american dream” with its corrupted social hierarchy and societal standards. The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald is a devastating romance novel on the surface, although with every page it becomes clear that the novel is not only about a man trying to win the affections of the woman of his dreams, but also a cynical analysis of the distorted American Dream and societies greed for money. Fitzgerald critiques the american dream, as well as the concept that America is a meritocracy where any individual can climb societal ranks gaining; admiration,
Both Fitzgerald and Hughes, have portrayed the American Dream, providing opposing and harmonious perspectives on the expanse to which America brings about the ideas inferred in Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby and Hughes's Poem “I, Too, Sing America”. This is exampled through the use of .... as both key characters are oppressed and driven, although are placed in contrasting circumstances, with opposing outcomes.

“I, too, Sing America” and The Great Gatsby by authors Hughes and Fitzgerald, describe being victims of societal rejection and judgement though the use of metaphors and allegories, as Gatsby is represented as a social outcast (in the eyes of those whom are “old money”), and Hughes’ speaker is ostracized due to the color of his skin. In chapter 6, Nick [Fitzgerald] shows the use of metaphors through stating “that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself”, and later referring to Gatsby as the “son of God”(Fitzgerald, 6), to emphasise Gatsby’s invention of his ideal persona through comparing the