Similarities Between Lennie And George In The Great Gatsby

Which dream is more accessible, George and Lennie’s, or Gatsby’s?

In both of these novels the main characters both harbor dreams which drive them to do everything in their power to make these dreams come true. Gatsby’s dream was to recreate the past, his dream was to win back his old girlfriend, Daisy, whom he had lost due to going off to war. His dream was also to become a millionaire and be able to have anything he ever wanted and he did not have when he was growing up. Gatsby’s dream was based on the past, while George and Lennie's dream was to make a future for themselves. All George and Lennie wanted was a little ranch to call their own. They wanted to have the flexibility to work when they wanted to and not because they had to, …show more content…
That's all you can ever remember is them rabbits." By this being said it shows that Lennie’s mind being worried about nothing but tending the rabbits. It could be said that Lennie’s dream can just be as simple as taking care of a couple of rabbits. Gatsby’s dream on the other hand was not so simple. He wished nothing less than to recreate the past and prove that Daisy had loved him all this time when she obviously had not. In chapter seven of The Great Gatsby all Jay wants Daisy to do is to tell Tom that she never loved him, but Daisy is unable to do so and she says “Oh, you want too much!" she cried to Gatsby. "I love you now – isn't that enough? I can't help what's past." She began to sob helplessly. "I did love him once – but I loved you too." Gatsby wants the impossible out of Daisy. How can he expect a women to tell her husband that she never loved him? Of course Daisy loved Tom at one point in her life and that one little thing put Gatsby’s entire dream in …show more content…
The life they strive towards is such a simple way of living which makes it hard to believe that they can’t actually make it happen one day. George explains their dream in chapter three by saying "All kin's a vegetables in the garden, and if we want a little whisky we can sell a few eggs or something, or some milk. We'd jus' live there. We'd belong there. There wouldn't be no more runnin' round the country and gettin' fed by a Jap cook. No, sir, we'd have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunk house." All it would take to make this dream come true would be determination, and just simply saving money. The dream George and Lennie have is a physical object that they want to obtain which would give them both happiness, but Gatsby on the other hand wants is the mental, and psychological feeling of love, and being loved which simply can’t be bought which is another reason his dream is much harder to make come true. When Nick goes over to Daisy’s for dinner the book reads "she looked at me with an absolute smirk on her lovely face as if she had asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom belonged" Daisy has been using Tom’s money to get out of trouble, and even though she may not love him anymore she still doesn’t seem willing to leave Tom for that exact reason, be she was in a “society” where only her and Tom