Sula And The Great Gatsby Analysis

Social Class The american people have always been advancing forward, rich, poor, white or black. Most people in poverty at the time have been moving to escape tragedy, and more opportunities than ever at the time were available. Due to the end of World War 1 it established a strong economic structure, which many american had money to buy new kinds of product or more expensive products. It was a time of change in the United States. A time for people to move forward from their unwanted lifestyles. From being in poverty, to becoming more educated and moving up to the upper class. In Sula a book by Toni Morrison & The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald were both written around the time collapse of the 1920’s or what its also called the roaring twenties. I will identify the similarities and differences and the environment each story takes place and how it differs from one another. Both of these stories exhibit this occurrence by creating characters like Sula and Gastby. Characters that will do anything to better their personal lives, both writers incorporate great failure into the lives of their main characters. Consequently discharging the visionary thoughts of the American Dream.
In Sula by Toni Morrison, it 's about a girl named Sula who lives in a black neighborhood known as the Bottom, which was at the bottom of the hills of a rich white …show more content…
By this i mean the both stories have the same motif. In Sula, Sula is just trying to advance in live to live the american dream, so does Gatsby in the great gatsby. “Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.”(Morrison 14). Sula is determined to live and die to the american dream, Sula believes that the american dream is what one person makes of it. So did gatsby, think the same thing by turning rich and being with person he loved was the american