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Similarities Between The Other Side Of The Bridge And The Great Gatsby

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Boasting conspicuous consumption to the less fortunate is like rubbing salt on a wound. In contrast, salt creates an anti-bacterial environment that allows the wound to heal even faster, like materialism motivates technological advances for long-term growth. However, sacrifices must be made to fuel the idea of commodification for it promotes selfishness, lust, and jealousy. The idea of obtaining rewards intended for selfish needs and wants forces humans to compete for female sexual objectification. This process has consequences, for the power of jealousy exchanges morality with ignorance. Although Lawson’s The Other Side of the Bridge and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby came to different conclusions about future ideals, they both share the idea that to compete for materialism reveals how friendships cannot exist. …show more content…

Females are like tools that are subjected to the single purpose men deem women are valued for, sexual intercourse. In The Other Side of the Bridge, Arthur Dunn’s younger brother Jake is irresistible, handsome, but dangerous to know for his manipulative and cunning behavior. He is known to actively seduce women regardless of the cost, to the point where he chooses to manipulate his brother’s crush, Laura. In Arthur’s mind, he imagined Jake saying “Bet you I can take her away from you. Bet you I’m better than you at this, like I’m better than you at everything,” (Lawson 298). This phrase ‘bet you’ commonly used by Jake reveals how easily women are objectified by staking an object or idea to prove a point. It is almost as if Jake views his world as a sandbox that allows him to choose which toy to play with. Seeing that he takes pleasure in knowing that he is able to, he lets others deal with his consequences, inevitably destroying the friendship with his brother. Whereas in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan is discovered to take advantage of two girls at

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