Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Chicago

An abrupt death of Myrtle caused by the traumatizing car accident, and the sudden crash of the Wall Street are both endings of glorious and magnificent times. Is this a simply coincidence? Or is it Fitzgerald’s intention to link The Great Gatsby with the time period? The devastating incident of the car crash was the ending of The Great Gatsby and the crash of Wall Street brought the shimmering and wondrous Roaring Twenties to the end. There are strong connections between the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ and the Roaring Twenties. America in the 1920s experienced various sudden and extreme changes in people’s lives in both economic and culture wise. The end of WWI introduced America to the urban society, causing a boost in economy, resulting affluence

In the age of the 'Roaring '20s', corrupt minds plagued the society of New York's elite and wealthy. In Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", Daisy Buchanan serves as a prime example of living the bourgeois lifestyle that ignored moral values. By blindly treading back and forth over the boundary separating morally wrong and innocently justified, Daisy's actions can be depicted as a person of an indecisive mind. By loving two men, and committing a murder, she exhibits the prime traits of a criminal- but by attempting to escape her blatantly sinister husband, Daisy innocently reaches for the lustful romance she yearns. In the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Daisy Buchanan as morally ambiguous through her speech, actions, and relationships with others.

Midnight in Paris and The Great Gatsby were films were the main characters are living in the past. Gil wants to live in the 1920’s were the golden age was important and Gatsby was to go back five years and finish off where him and Daisy could spend there life together in louisville.

Alienation can be defined as a state of being cut off or separate from a person or group of people. There are many factors that cause people to become alienated: race, political views, social status, etc. The texts “The Great Gatsby”, “The Catcher in the Rye”, and the play “Death of a Salesman” all portray characters who are cut off from the rest society. Despite the character's best effort to fit in, they ultimately fail. The authors argue that one's ideology can cause them to be alienated.

The novel The Great Gatsby and the film Chicago have many differences and similarities. The Great Gatsby is based on a man named Jay Gatsby. The novel is told by a once neighbor named Nick Carraway. The film Chicago is movie filled with music and color. Roxie Hart who was charged with murder is thrown in jail. She hires Billy Flynn as her lawyer who is also Velma Kelly’s lawyer who was also charged with murder for killing her husband. In both the film and novel the women stand out. Whether it be Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly in Chicago or Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker in

Fitzgerald uses Characters in The Great Gatsby for multiple reasons: as catalysts for significant events, as physical representations of 20s society, and in order to illustrate important themes in his novel. Fitzgerald uses Daisy and Myrtle particularly as inherent contrasts of people in the 1920’s. One represents love, the other sex; One wealth, the has a lack thereof; and they both represent different pitfalls in 20s society.

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, characters are depicted as corrupt human beings influenced by their own personal agendas. With an indistinguishable line between right and wrong, they remain unaware of the consequences that follow their actions. Daisy Buchanan is portrayed as the “golden girl” of her time. She is the woman every man wants to call their own, although they only focus on her superficial features rather than personal qualities. Throughout the novel, her true self begins to unfold, displaying how she misleads others to protect her social stature and reputation. Daisy’s submissive nature continuously hurts the people she cares about by allowing her to engage in dishonest activities.

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald published what is considered to be his most popular novel, The Great Gatsby. Almost thirty years later, Arthur Miller released his play Death of a Salesman in 1949. One of the greatest similarities between these seemingly different works is how their authors portray the American Dream. The American dream, according to author and historian James Truslow Adams, is “…that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” In Death of a Salesman and The Great Gatsby, Miller and Fitzgerald create a critic of the American Dream through the protagonist’s dreams, lies, and their fascination with the past, factors that led to their demise, and then use their protagonists to create a critic on modern day American society.

Sometimes people put on a facade for the rest of the world to hide the bad in themselves which they don't want others to see. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan is caught in between her husband, Tom Buchanan and her first love, Jay Gatsby who are both fighting for her love. Daisy is sympathized for as she is put in this tough spot, however true intentions are revealed as she leads both of these men on. As she has relations with both Tom and Gatsby, Daisy selfishly acts to only please herself and protect her character. Although Fitzgerald carefully builds Daisy's character with associations of light, purity, and innocence, when all is said and done, she is the opposite from what presents herself to be.

American politician Marco Rubio once said,“The American dream is a term that is often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that” (brainyquote.com). This concept is true in the novels The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, and The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. In both novels, the protagonists (Holden and Gatsby) are pushed by society to live up to the stereotypical ‘American dream’. Both Holden and Gatsby have high and unrealistic expectations of themselves. They both share fond memories and their different ideas of the American dream; but in the end, they realize their ideas of them are just fantasies. After realising the truth behind the American dream, it leads them to their tragic end. The American dream is not beneficial because it pushes people in society to be something they are not. Both stories are tragic because the pursuit of the dream, and Holden’s individuality.

Daisy’s greed Gatsby can arguable be called the hero of the story, he too is afflicted with greed, perhaps the most of any of the characters. Fitzgerald, at first, manages to hide this trait of Gatsby beneath a romantic image of a young, wealthy, love struck man who gives grand parties and is well-liked. However, Jay Gatsby’s image changes as we learn more of the

Romance, love, and destiny. Connections are formed like bridges built of various things; love, trust, money, fate. Some bridges are stronger than others and some bridges connect people who perhaps shouldn’t be connected. The movie “The Great Gatsby” better expresses the romantic relationships and connections between characters. Between Tom and Daisy, whose relationship may have more to do with survival than love, with Myrtle and Tom, the bridge between them connecting two souls searching for something more in life. And then there are bridges like the one between Jordan and Nick, filled with lies and a bridge not often travelled, and if you’re lucky you come across a bridge like Gatsby and Daisy's, which is made of love but filled with obstacles. These bridges play a key part in the story and the movie most definitely does a better job at expressing these connections between characters.

      During the decade of the 1920's, America was going through many changes, evolving from the Victorian Period to the Jazz Age. Changing with the times, the young adults of the 1920's were considered the "Lost Generation". The Great War was over in 1918. Men who returned from the war had the scars of war imprinted in their minds. The eighteenth amendment was ratified in 1919 which prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor in the United States. Despite the eighteenth amendment, most people think of large, lavish parties when thinking about the 1920's. The nineteenth amendment was passed in 1920 which gave women

Society in the world during a time is often told best in a novel, The Great Gatsby by

“You are all a lost generation…” Ernest Hemingway writes in his book The Sun Also Rises. The lost generation often refers to a group of writers during the 1920’s; it consisted of many writers such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald and Hemingway were two of many great literary writers who attempted to change the world in a post World War 1 era. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby both impacted the 1920’s world with their common themes and beliefs portrayed through their literary works. A similar theme between the two works was the impact the war had on the people of the world.