What Are The Similarities Between Chicago And The Great Gatsby

Thesis Statement: Both Chicago and Gatsby show that, in the 1920s, society viewed women as a joke and they're better off being entertainers.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that highlights the stark contrast between the rich elites of East Egg and the dirt-poor ashen people of the Valley of Ashes through the reckless power that the wealthy of this world can exert on the unfortunate. As concluded by Nick in the novel, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness [...] and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (Fitzgerald, 179). By thoroughly examining the thoughtless actions of Daisy and Tom Buchanan and their consequences, Baz Luhrmann's rendition of The Great Gatsby portrays the carelessness of the elites more effectively than the novel. Through the inclusion of additional scenes and the omission of some, Baz Luhrmann conveys the utter disregard that Tom and Daisy posses towards other characters in the novel.

In The Great Gatsby, the author, F Scott Fitzgerald depicts the post - war roaring 20’s, a time of overwhelming prosperity and a new found sense of hope for the future. While this novel is often perceived as a romance, it is also a criticism on the devastating nature of the elusive american dream. The story of Jay Gatsby is a representation of what had become the values of the individual at the time. With the progression of the early 1920’s the vision of the perfect life, or the american dream, had been skewed. It was replaced with greed, and an abundance of reckless spending in which the wealthier individuals placed their misguided ideas of happiness. In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald chooses to expose the hidden truth behind the illustrious concept of the American dream. Through his use of literary devices such as, symbolism, metaphor, and, irony the central idea of the truly unattainable American dream is supported throughout the novel.

“The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us” is the unattainable goal of those living in Tom and Daisy’s world—a world where lives are wasted chasing the unreachable (Fitzgerald 180). In his 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, author F. Scott Fitzgerald suggests that making any progress whatsoever toward this aspiration often requires people to establish facades that enable them to progress socially, but that a crippled facade will backfire and cause detriment to its creator. In the passage where Nick realizes who Gatsby is on page 48, Nick observes two different versions of Gatsby—one that is reassuring and truthful and another who “pick[s] his words with care” (Fitzgerald 48). Nick is at first attracted to Gatsby’s constructed

Usually as a kid you are taught not to lie but what if Lying would be the only way to actually make a living now that changes everything. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Film Chicago by Rob Marshall both take place in the 1920 's and have a very similar attitude towards lying. The Characters that tend to lie aren’t poor people no one knows about; they are popular,famous,and rich. In the novel The Great Gatsby and in the film Chicago, main characters, such as Gatsby and Roxie Lie because they are hiding something or they do it to achieve some sort of fame. Both Pieces take place in the 1920’s this goes to show that lies were necessary to become a known person

In the Great Gatsby many different characters affect how satisfying the ending is. In the next five paragraphs I will be explaining and showing how Daisy Buchanan’s actions had led to a less satisfying end. Do you think without Daisy’s actions, the story would be more satisfying?

Arguably some of the main characters of the works, Daisy Buchanan and Roxie Hart have some outlying similarities when comparing The Great Gatsby and Chicago. For example, both characters are incredibly conceited and are incapable of thinking of others or helping to better someone else, other than themselves. Both characters, in my opinion, are seen as disgraceful due to their consistent dishonesty. However, the two women do have an outlying difference in their motives of selfishness. While Daisy Buchanan desires acceptance, love, and to be taken care of, Roxie Hart solely desires fame, wealth, and notoriety. Pertaining to Daisy, her selfishness is evident throughout the novel with regards to her actions. By marrying Tom, yet having an affair with Gatsby, exemplifies her selfishness by solely wanting to please herself by marrying a stable man that can take care of her, while enjoying a past love that brings back exciting memories and emotions. Fitzgerald shows this selfishness through the commentary of Nick Carraway in response to one of Daisy’s actions with, “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness.” This narration shows the selfishness of Daisy through her equally horrid carelessness. Additionally, by the recollection or flashback provided by Nick in the novel, “I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower”, Fitzgerald

Gatsby’s life has been told many ways and he has not been honest to many people about it, leading to the end of the book where there are a series of events that inevitably kill Jay Gatsby. “‘Was Daisy driving?’ ‘Yes,’ he said after a moment, ‘but of course I’ll say I was ...’”(Fitzgerald 15). The paradoxical idea of who was driving the car and the lie Gatsby will tell, enforces the idea of dishonest behavior. The contradiction between true events and what will be told to the public, except for Nick, connects the belief that they can get away with the killing of

Gatsby loved Daisy and would even take the fall for a murder if it would protect her. She didn't even have the decency to call the day after it happened. There was no thanking for gatsby's noble deed, she was only concerned about herself. “They were careless people Tom and Daisy.” I agree with Nick’s opinion because they destroyed good people like Gatsby and just pretended like it never happened.

Gatsby’s was just looking to take what he could get (Fitzgerald 149) with Daisy but ended up falling in love with her. When he returned from the war he knew that he needed to have money if he was ever going to be with Daisy again. So Gatsby became a bootlegger and created the house and life that he had imagined for him and Daisy. She loved the extravagant life that he had built for himself but it still wasn’t enough for her to leave her life with Tom. Daisy knew that she could never be with a bootlegger, and ended up fleeing town with Tom, without even saying goodbye. Daisy cares more about what others think of her than about how she feels.

We are all taught at a young age that lying is bad and we should always tell the truth, the truth shall set you free. Certainly characters from the movie Chicago directed by Rob Marshall and the book The Great Gatsby by: F. Scott Fitzgerald had a lot of trouble with the truth. They did not seem to stop lying in particular the female characters. They lie for their own benefit, but also lie because of their fear what society will think of them as a result of their sins.

A character that is most similar between The Great Gatsby and Chicago are Roxie Hart and Tom Buchanan. As in the movie Chicago the director develops Roxie on the screen as someone who is considered non-loyal as well as sort of sinister. This relates to hot Tom Buchanan is in The Great Gatsby because the author uses literary devices such as when he says "If we don’t look out the white race will be---will be utterly submerged", to show how he’s someone who has no care for other people of color, throughout using symbolism and word choice.

In the novel The Great Gatsby and the drama movie Chicago there are many common and reoccurring themes within the two. One of these recurring themes is the idea of the American Dream and money and how they intertwine with each other. In Gatsby and Chicago it is portrayed that to achieve ultimate happiness and the American dream the characters thought that it would require either to have a lot of money or to be extremely famous, but F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays that the people with some money and who were more caring showed that they were more at peace and happy than the other character. There are a lot of examples within both Chicago and The Great Gatsby that show examples where character feel the need that to achieve the goals they want in

The readers see this more clearly when the truth about Myrtle is unraveled. Gatsby wasn’t driving the car that night, in fact it was Daisy. However, he was willing to take the blame for it as long as Daisy was okay. He went over to Daisy’s later that night to see how well she was coping with what had happened earlier. He finds her in a frantic, not knowing how to overcome what she did to such an innocent person. Gatsby knows at this moment that he is the one who will be taking the blame, not allowing Daisy to feel worse about it that she already does. This is the scene that makes the readers believe that Gatsby is a true genuine man.

“The Great Gatsby” is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the “roaring” as the economy soared. At the same time, prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely