Is success even considered authentic success if satisfaction isn’t present in the end? American author, Anna Quindlen, once stated, “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” Society believes that by succeeding in your endeavors, you are instantly happy, which isn’t always the case. Within both The Great Gatsby and A Walk to the Jetty, the heartache and struggle from working towards success grows some realization in the mind of the reader that it is a lot more difficult to be truly successful then it is initially anticipated.Throughout A Walk to the Jetty by Jamaica Kincaid and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, both characters, Annie John and James Gatz, sacrifice their family relationships and personal well-being by creating contrasting goals that lead them on the path to strengthen their purpose in life.
Both Annie John and James Gatz sacrifice their own happiness and risk their family ties while working towards finding a greater purpose for themselves at only age 17; however, the reader realizes that the characters are contrasting their own successes. They identify that those successes left them unhappier than before they began working towards it. The main conflict both characters encounter is the …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, both characters, Annie John and James Gatz, sacrifice their family relationships and personal well-being by creating contrasting goals that lead them on the path to strengthen their purpose in life. While Annie is more aware of the risks she is taking, James Gatz is oblivious to any of the risks that are to come along his journey to success. With that being said, they both have the same goal; to strengthen their purpose in life. In the end of each book, readers get a taste of the result of both characters’ happiness and can easily see if this happiness of their is
Both Annie John and James Gatz sacrifice their own happiness and risk their family ties while working towards finding a greater purpose for themselves at only age 17; however, the reader realizes that the characters are contrasting their own successes. They identify that those successes left them unhappier than before they began working towards it. The main conflict both characters encounter is the …show more content…
Scott Fitzgerald, both characters, Annie John and James Gatz, sacrifice their family relationships and personal well-being by creating contrasting goals that lead them on the path to strengthen their purpose in life. While Annie is more aware of the risks she is taking, James Gatz is oblivious to any of the risks that are to come along his journey to success. With that being said, they both have the same goal; to strengthen their purpose in life. In the end of each book, readers get a taste of the result of both characters’ happiness and can easily see if this happiness of their is