The Great Gatsby And Citizen Kane Analysis

One’s life relies heavily on both where they have come from and where they plan on going in the future. The past shapes people to be who they are and to form their morals. But for the future, it is determined by the ambitions a person holds. For the main characters of the book The Great Gatsby, the Broadway play Hamilton, and the movie Citizen Kane, their pasts and ambitions unfortunately limit the characters and eventually lead to their downfalls. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, follows his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, along his journey to win back his love from the past, Daisy Buchanan. But for Gatsby, he holds on too much to the past and fails to realize the consequences his desires may have. While Gatsby was at war, Daisy got married, yet Gatsby …show more content…
After his mother acquired a profitable mine, she sent a young Kane off to be taken care of by the bank in an attempt to provide him with a good future. While Kane did end up successful with lots of wealth and as the leader of a large newspaper, he failed to acquire morals necessary for adulthood. Throughout his life he remained immature in how he handled business, his love life, and his goals. He held on to his childhood until his death because it was ripped away from him and he was never truly able to experience it. This is displayed in the scene of Kane’s death and lies within his final words. When he died, Kane dropped a snow globe that shattered when it hit the ground. The snow globe had inside a little house covered in snow, just like the scene of Kane’s childhood home when he was taken away by the bank. Along with this memory, Kane’s dying word was “Rosebud”, the name of his childhood sled he had been riding that same day. He had carried these memories throughout his whole life, demonstrating his attempts to hold onto his childhood disregarding what was happening in his life