Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Scarlet Letter

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne are very influential and great novels. These two stories have many comparisons toward each other and many differences toward each other. I read these novels during my junior year. I found these novels to be very interesting and perhaps influential to me and many different women in general. These two stories portray adultery. Adultery was considered very bad during the olden days. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Number six of the ten commands says, “Thou shall not commit adultery.” Adultery is a very bad sin and many can be affected by adultery. If you are accused of committing adultery, the women would be stoned to death. In the Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan illustrates many signs of adultery. Daisy has many love affairs with Tom Buchanan, her husband, and Jay Gatsby, her lover. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is the man character who was portrayed and accused of adultery. Hester commits adultery with Reverend Dimmesdale. Hester’s husband is Roger Chillingworth. Adultery was considered very malicious …show more content…
No one quite knew that this was going on. Tom got a little jealous but he is having an affair himself. In the middle of the novel, Gatsby calls off his parties. Daisy is not amused by the parties. Gatsby fires his servants because he thinks they are gossiping about the love affair (Mr. Manisero notes, chapter 7). Daisy admits to loving Gatsby; she wants to leave Tom. On the way home from lunch, Nick sees something odd. He then realizes that Tom’s mistress has been hit by a car. Daisy was driving the car and on accident hit Myrtle. Gatsby took the blame for it all. George was Myrtle’s husband George thought that Gatsby was the one who had the interest in Myrtle since she was pronounced dead by his car. In the very last chapter of the novel, we come to assurance that Gatsby was murdered by