Walter and Gatsby’s complete sense of selfish pride results in the failure of their dreams by their own hand. Walter and Gatsby are the antithesis of each other through their exterior selves, but morally, they are greatly alike. The way Gatsby and Walter have a want for money, revolve their lives around it, and the need for others to view them as grand people causes them to fall. The only aspect of their life that grants them some sense of sanity is the role that Daisy and Ruth, their loves, have in their actions. Fitzgerald creates the invisible barrier of money to distract Gatsby from reality. Growing up in a poor, farming household, Gatsby has always had a desire for wealth. At the age of seventeen, he meets a man named Dan Cody who teaches
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Ruth and Walter are not in the best financial situation and Ruth is constantly wanting to save money and accept her circumstance. Oppositely, Walter refuses to let the position he is in to affect him and his child, “In fact, here’s another fifty cents…Buy yourself some fruit today – or take a taxicab to school or something” (Hansberry 1.1). Walter goes against exactly what his wife straightforwardly tells him not to do. Walter is constantly the one to bring the conflict to the scene, and if he simply listens to the opinion of wife, these matters would not get out of hand. As Walter’s disagreements with Ruth become habitual, their relationship slowly enervates. In Great Gatsby, Jay is seen revolving his whole self around Daisy, Walter simply cares for himself. Hansberry writes “I guess between two people there ain’t never as much understood as folks generally think there is. I mean like between me and you—” (2.1). Walter becomes so absorbed in himself, he genuinely does not care about his relationship with his wife. He speaks of his rocky relationship as if it’s a petty subject. His pride leads him down a rough path, until he realizes he is wrong and makes amends with his family. Finally, he has a change of heart and listens to others to make the most logical and necessary decision to give up on his
Ruth and Walter are not in the best financial situation and Ruth is constantly wanting to save money and accept her circumstance. Oppositely, Walter refuses to let the position he is in to affect him and his child, “In fact, here’s another fifty cents…Buy yourself some fruit today – or take a taxicab to school or something” (Hansberry 1.1). Walter goes against exactly what his wife straightforwardly tells him not to do. Walter is constantly the one to bring the conflict to the scene, and if he simply listens to the opinion of wife, these matters would not get out of hand. As Walter’s disagreements with Ruth become habitual, their relationship slowly enervates. In Great Gatsby, Jay is seen revolving his whole self around Daisy, Walter simply cares for himself. Hansberry writes “I guess between two people there ain’t never as much understood as folks generally think there is. I mean like between me and you—” (2.1). Walter becomes so absorbed in himself, he genuinely does not care about his relationship with his wife. He speaks of his rocky relationship as if it’s a petty subject. His pride leads him down a rough path, until he realizes he is wrong and makes amends with his family. Finally, he has a change of heart and listens to others to make the most logical and necessary decision to give up on his