Similarities And Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Winter Dream

while the first story related to only a slim few. Although these stories related to one another, they did not reach out to the same audience. There are only a few readers who can relate to both at the same time.

In book, “The Great Gatsby,” F. Scott Fitzgerald depicts how the American was corrupted through wealth. Fitzgerald provides many examples. The most common example shown was Jay Gatsby. Gatsby’s idea that to achieve his American Dream must be to acquire wealth. In order to show this, Fitzgerald uses various literary elements. Two of those being imagery and foreshadowing, these played a critical role in describing the theme, and specific moods to show what was to come and as well as describe the story as a whole. These play a vital role in representing Gatsby’s life and journey to acquiring Daisy, his version of the American Dream.

These examples support the idea that both Jay Gatsby’s and The Younger Family’s minds revolve around money.

The similarities between Dexter and Gatsby are why “Winter Dreams” is a prototype of The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby is a man that is born into a poor family but gets rich through illegal work, which is similar to Dexter in “Winter Dreams”, who is also poor at first but then gets rich through a laundry company. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald writes about Gatsby’s becoming by explaining that his parents are unsuccessful farm people that he does not see as a parents and he leaves to lead a new life as a rich man (Fitzgerald 98). Gatsby starts off as a poor man who wants to be someone else. He creates a better version of himself , a version that is not dragged down by poverty. Gatsby wants to be a successful person in life and changing his identity to break away from his lower class lifestyle was his way to do it. Later on, Gatsby uses this to become rich and get back with Daisy. In “Winter Dreams”, Dexters main dreams are to be successful and get Judy. His motivation for quitting his caddy job and starting his laundry company is to gain money, and in turn, win over Judy. Both men are influenced by women and their desperation to get them as well as their desire to be more than what class they were born into. Although the characters are very similar they show differences in how Dexter views his relationship with Judy and how Gatsby perceives his relationship with Daisy. In “Winter Dreams” Fitzgerald shows the two characters differences by writing “The dream was gone [...] ‘long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing

Two characters that may have struck the audience to have nothing in common but internally have many similarities. They might have completely different actions in situations, different looks on the way of life, and different goal in the end of their time, but are very similar in certain aspects. These two characters are Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. Jay Gatsby is a middle aged man that came from nothing but has now has worked his way to have “everything.” He came from a poor family but became incredibly rich. He did not achieve his success in the best way, but he made it. He owns a huge mansion on West Egg that he would have never been able to afford in his past. Nick Carraway is the narrator of the story. So, the readers get to actually hear

     In the text, The Great Gatsby, the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald leads us to sympathize with the central character of the text, Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald evokes our sympathy using non-linear narrative and extended flashbacks as well as imagery, characterization and theme. Through these mediums, Fitzgerald is able to reveal Gatsby as a character who is in an unrelenting pursuit of an unattainable dream. While narrative and imagery reveal him to be a mysterious character, Gatsby's flaw is his ultimate dream which makes him a tragic figure and one with which we sympathize.

The settings of “The Great Gatsby” and “Winter Dreams” both have an effect on their characters. Dexter Green lives in Minnesota and worked as a caddy at a prestigious golf club. He dreams of achieving the level of wealth that the golfers he once worked for possess. Jay Gatsby is originally from Minnesota and moved to West Egg in New York. He also dreams of fitting in with upper class society. “Mr. Hart-- one of the gray haired men who like to say “Now there’s a boy”-- gave him a guest card to the Sherry Island golf Club for a week-end… He did not consider it necessary to remark that he had once carried Mr. Hart’s bag over this same links.” (Winter Dreams 3). It is at this point where Dexter has completed the transformation from caddy boy to somebody with

Gatsby seemed like an anti-social, cold, mysterious man. However, I know a very different man. I know a man whom since young has grew up in poverty as a poor farmer boy. He was an ordinary boy, but he had extraordinary ambitions, ambitions no man of his social stature would dare to even begin assuming. In an unexpected coincidence, while working as a fisher, he met with a Dan Cody, who took him in as a personal assistant. It was through Dan Cody that Mr. Gatsby learnt the ways of luxury and even further solidified his ambition. Before I first took up the job to work with Mr. Gatsby, I was desperate. Desperation … I still recall the days of uncertainty that questioned if I was able to feed my wife and 2 children each day. However, when I was down, so down I almost attempted suicide on the shores, Mr. Gatsby reached out, and turn my life around. Not only did he settle all my financial need, he educated me, gave me a stable job. The fact that I am able to read and speak fluently is a testament to his efforts, and to him I am eternally

Jay Gatsby, taken in by a bittersweet fruit, drags himself through filth. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby becomes wealthy to achieve his American Dream, but he fails to achieve it because of the corruption and disillusioning effects of materialistic society.

The dream that he would be more than he was when he was a child, to have all the riches that a man could have, all the women, cars and houses. “ The truth about Jay Gatsby of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his platonic conception of himself.(98) .Gatsby’s young life, we are told that it wasn’t the best. He starts with so little being the son of an unsuccessful farmer. He distanced himself from his family because he did not see them as his parents, His imagination refused to see that way..”His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people-his imagination never really accepted them as his parents at all.” (98) As he grew older he had less and wanted to change that so he did. He spent his time on the

The differences between Gatsby and Green are far more complex compared to their similarities, although locations and characters seem equivalent, their business ventures, overall dreams and self-identity begin to diverge completely. Jay Gatsby, as Daisy later finds out made his fortune though illegal activities such as bootleg operations and therefore this discredits his character. Meanwhile, Dexter attends a prominent university and then becomes an entrepreneur, making his fortune by honest hard work. While they both dream of the woman they idealize, Dexter is not as obsessed with Judy as Jay is with Daisy. Gatsby makes it his mission in life to alter who he is on the inside and outside in order to compel Daisy to be with him. He changes his name and creates this mysterious persona. His lavish lifestyle, parties and acquaintances are all a façade in order to be around Daisy and emulate the high society she

Even though Gatsby was born James Gatz on a small farm in North Dakota, he was motivated by Dan Cody and Daisy to dedicate his life to the achievement of wealth and love. Some people might claim that Gatsby was able to achieve his dream because he succeeded in becoming a fabulously wealthy man in West Egg. However, this is only partially true, for Gatsby’s genuine American Dream was to attain Daisy Buchanan. Therefore, this novel portrays both the power and deleterious result of the American Dream (C. J. Dawson).

In the final analysis, characters from both stories carried with them a dream that inevitably led them to irrational thinking and an ultimate downfall. In simple

Throughout an author's career, they will use common character traits in different pieces of writing. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Winter Dreams” and novel The Great Gatsby incorporates two characters from different backgrounds sharing similar qualities. Dexter Green comes from “Winter Dreams” and is the son of a wealthy father. However, James Gatz from The Great Gatsby is the opposite; he comes from a shiftless and unsuccessful family. Although the two come from different backgrounds, the two share the characteristic of imagination. Gatz would imagine himself being wealthy: “these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality” (99). Gatz thought of himself as being far better

In the story, Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dexter dreams of becoming part of the upper class. He falls in love with Judy, the ritzy girl who is idolized by the men of the town, even though he is far below her on the social scale. Dexter fights his way to the top so that he can deserve her love. By making sacrifices in his life, losing himself, and overall losing everything else, Dexter discovers that his materialistic lifestyle was not what he wanted all along.