Comparing Brett And Jake In The Great Gatsby By Ernest Hemingway

“Oh, Jake, we could have had such a damned good time together.’ ‘Yes, Isn’t it pretty to think so?”. Their final discussion is right where they started in the back of a cab. Brett has just dug a hole even deeper into the abyss of disappointment that Brett has already given him. Jake has lost his masculinity in more ways than one. He has to live without Brett, and with his disability, denying him any chance at all with women. He has finally accepted the loveless relationship that has become of them, and will push forward knowing how it will never be.

The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s while The Catcher in the Rye is set in the 1950s. Despite the time periods being 30 years apart, both novels depict the American Dream in similar ways through the protagonist. The Great Gatsby follows the story of young man, Jay Gatsby, trying to win back his former love interest, Daisy, through his acquisition of wealth. The Catcher in the Rye is narrated by a male teenager, Holden Caulfield, and follows the story of how he ended up in a mental hospital. The concept of the American Dream is displayed in each novel. The authors of The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye use the American Dream to motivate the protagonist to try and achieve unattainable dreams. However, only Holden realizes his dream

A narrator, by definition, is how an author chooses to portray information to readers in their work. An author’s choice, in how to tell a story is ideal to the effect it has on readers. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway tells the entire story as a first-person, peripheral narrator. Fitzgerald purposefully chooses Nick as a partially removed character, with very few emotions and personal opinions. By doing so, readers experience the same ambiguity of other character’s thoughts, are carried smoothly throughout the plot, and Nick’s nonjudgmental character lets readers form opinions of their own.

Holden contemplates moving out west by himself to fulfill his desire of independence, leaving Phoebe, the only person who truly cares for him, behind in the process. When Holden returns home from Pencey, he explains to Phoebe that he got expelled from school. Phoebe expresses her great concern for Holden’s safety from their father, but Holden reassures her he has a plan. He tells her “In the first place, [he’s] going away. What [he] may do, [he] may get a job on a ranch or something for a while. [he knows] this guy whose grandfather’s got a ranch in colorado. [He] may get a job out there… [He’ll] keep in touch with [Phoebe] and all when [he’s] gone, if [he goes]” (Salinger 165). “I’m going away” makes Holden sound like he has committed to departing. “I may get a job out there” highlights how Holden has thought this through and how he wants to continue with this idea. However, “may” connotes a sense of uncertainty which portrays his corrupt morals because he does not have a definite plan for when he reaches the west, but he will abandon his sister anyways. Holden reassures Phoebe he will still be there for her by saying “I’ll keep in touch”, even though he decided to leave her. Holden’s explanation to Phoebe about moving fulfills his wants and will make him independent, however he will be leaving Phoebe behind, who is the only person who truly cares about him since his parents are never around and uninvolved. Later on in the novel, Holden finally decides to leave for the

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the story of a young millionaire named Jay Gatsby told from his best friend's point of view. Gatsby throws famously large parties in an attempt to bring the girl of his dreams back into his life. Jake, Reinvented is a modern retelling of The Great Gatsby and features Jake Garrett and his master plan to make the girl of his dreams, Didi, his girlfriend. Both books feature a young man going above and beyond for a girl who means everything to them. The main largest difference between the two story lines is the age of the characters and the time in which they occurred. The characters, Jordan, from The Great Gatsby and Jennifer, from Jake, Reinvented are two counterparts of one main idea. For example, both girls are close with Daisy or Didi, respectively. Jordan and Jennifer also fall in love with either Nick or Rick, a different set of characters who are also counterparts between the two books.`A third parallel between Jennifer and Jordan is their selfish personalities. Yet some differences separate the two. In The Great Gatsby Jordan Baker’s relationship with Nick ends on a sour note unlike Jennifer’s relationship with Rick in Jake, Reinvented. Even though the two characters are counterparts of the same story there are still slight differences throughout the books.

Both of Fitzgerald and Gatsby are the out-dated man of their times. Fitzgerald earns his reputation as a novelist, while Gatsby is ambitious and later became rich as a bootlegger. They meet their beloved girl and win them in the similar way. Also, they have the tragic end finally in the similar way.

By pushing men away, Brett is really displaying codependent behavior. She acts like she does not need the men to fulfill her emotions, but without men competing for her, her life is empty. Not only does she lean on Jake for emotional fulfillment, but she counts on men obsessing over her. She acts as if she would be alright if no men exclaimed their love for her, but she in fact thrives on it. Her fuel to live is turning men down, and she depends on that behavior to get by in her already empty life.

Qualities like absolute moral perfection are even less attainable than world peace, and they have no place in quality literature. No one relates to the main character that never lets his emotions get the better of him once in a while. Truly powerful characters require at least some degree of moral ambiguity. Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby engages in illegal liquor sales and business with the man who rigged the World Series, which combine with his purest of intentions and virtually universal kindness to create some definitely ambiguous morals. Due to that ambiguity, Gatsby’s character remains imperfect and one whom readers can entirely relate to, while promoting the prominent theme in the novel of the American Dream’s

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Tom Buchanan is portrayed as a bully who is snobbish, physically and mentally abusive, and ridiculously wealthy. He is good at covering his lack of self-esteem by talking bigger and better about himself than how he truly feels. Tom is a large powerful man therefore he is always ready for a fight if somebody dare to disagree with him. Nick observes, “I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrevocable football game.” (Fitzgerald 17) Nick’s speculation about Buchanan and the irrevocable football game presents Tom as someone whose needs can never fully be met. Buchanan through his many outburst of aggression. Fitzgerald assures that readers

A great person is someone who can accomplish something that most can’t. In the great Gatsby, by F. scott fitzgerald, a man named Nick carraway moves to West Egg New York to fulfil his work bonds and stalks sales man. When nick goes to one of gatsby's party he is stunned by how amazing gatsby's house is this is when Nick finds out that gatsby is great. Gatsby is great because he is generous and kind to his friends and devotes a lot to others in chapter 3 fitzgerald stats that gatsby has a man at his house that he did not even know lived there. This mans name is klipspringer, when gatsby finds out he does not care he lets klipspringer live there any ways this shows how nice gatsby can be to people he does not even know. Gatsby is great because he started out with nothing and became rich, he also is great because he was doing all of it for love.

The film representations of the scenes from The Great Gatsby and Midnight in Paris of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, The Great Gatsby, have similar scenes, which represent the 1920’s where many people are caught up living in the past and the “Golden Age.” The scenes within the film, The Great Gatsby, represent the book well, but there are some scenes that were removed from the film that represent specific scenes from the novel perfectly. As for Midnight in Paris, the scenes represent the themes from Fitzgerald’s novel with the lighting, music, and characters. In the film Midnight in Paris Gil tries to steal Inez’s pair of earrings so he can give it to Adriana.

Love between Tom and Gatsby is one of the center conflicts in the story. In the novel, Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan and lives in East Egg. She also has a daughter named Pammy, whose age is not mentioned. Before Daisy marries Tom, she courted Gatsby before he left Louisville to serve in World War 1, which results in Daisy to wait for Gatsby. In the movie, Gatsby invited Daisy and Tom to one of his parties. Gatsby ends up taking a long phone call which results in Daisy waiting for him again but gives up and leaves. Daisy was full of old money. A quote in the book from Nick says, “her voice is full of money.” This shows her voice was seductive. In the novel she is shown as careless and shallow but in

The novel "The Great Gatsby" is a very good novel. Today I will be comparing and contrasting the novel "The Great Gatsby" to the movie "The Great Gatsby." To be more specific I will be talking about how my visualization of Jay Gatsby was in the novel and how he actually appears in the movie. Jay Gatsby is the main character of this story. Alright so, in the novel Jay Gatsby seems to be a rags-to-riches type of guy, he's sweet , mysterious , and gracious at the beginning of this Novel, Jay Gatsby makes his life seems as though he worked hard for all of his riches and isn't afraid to let anyone know how he got his riches. Mr. Gatsby makes you feel sorry for him once you hear the beginning of his story because he makes himself out to be poor white

The reading of other texts contributes to creating meaning for other texts. An example of this is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, this novel is more easily understood when it is compared and contrasted to other literature works, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The aspects of the two novels that can be compared and contrasted are the plot development, characterisation, setting, narrative point of view, writer's context and themes and issues.

In Hemingway's philosophical paradigm, it is subconsciously encoded that Jake suffers with poise and refinement. He does not become irate with Brett for her decision, by contrast, he accepts her promiscuity and even chooses to help her in a multitude of ways, even though she repeatedly claims that she loves him. Consequentially, this is not to say that Jake did not suffer, rather than to suggest that he keeps his pain suppressed so as not to enervate himself any further. Jake knows the two can never initiate a relationship yet he still wishes to do so; his undying desire to be with Brett serves as his illusion even though it is a complete contradiction of his reality, as presented in the novel. This is the disheartening romantic imagery that deceits his realistic views. For example, in Chapter 7, Hemingway’s use of minimum dialogue between Brett and Jake has much meaning, which is rarely expressed throughout the novel. “Couldn’t we live together, Brett? …” “I don’t think so. I’d just tromper you with everybody.” (p. 62) Essentially, what Brett is saying is that due to his – handicap, if you will, all she would do is hurt Jake and commit constant infidelity against him, therefore, any chance for commitment is but a joke. This direct dialogue sets the underlying conflict as a form for one of the main themes expressed by Hemingway throughout this novel.