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wealthy men have the same rather arrogant and superior attitude. On the surface of things, it seems as Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan are very similar people since they have both acquired mass amounts of wealth, and do not think twice about showing off at any opportunity they get; but if one were to truly analyze the book, there is a clear difference in the characteristics of Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby. Throughout the story, Gatsby presents a more noble view towards other people while Buchanan…

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the greatest books in american literature. With its rich storytelling and character development, a reader can really dive into its pages. The story centers around a man named Jay Gatsby, who has a deep love for a woman named Daisy . The only problem is that she already has a husband, Tom. Although they have their similarities, it’s their major differences that make these two men clash over Daisy. First of all, these two men have just a few…

Gatsby can tell that the characters Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby but heads often. They have different motives in life and this causes these main characters do dislike each other through the whole book. It is easy to notice how Gatsby and Tom despise each other, but they actually have some parallels. Both Tom and Gatsby refuse to accept defeat, but they differ in how they treat Daisy and how they use their money through the book. Both Tom Buchanan and Jay Gatsby refused to accept defeat when…

than one meaning, things will become more clear. The idea of Jay Gatsby is ambiguous because of his questionable life, although everything he does is because of his love for Daisy Buchanan. Lance Armstrong was a hero to the world because of his accomplishments, but when the truth is revealed about his cheating all of his accomplishments are removed from our minds and our ideas of this athlete are tarnished, regardless of his success. Jay Gatsby…

Money can buy all privileges you can think of in but love. The mysterious protagonist Jay Gatsby from the F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story “Great Gatsby” is a newly rich entrepreneur whose quest of achieving the American dream leads him from poverty to wealth apparently through illegal money. Gatsby’s grand mansion and extravagant lifestyle are quite bizarre in West Egg because nobody is able to make “new money” so quickly. Tom Buchanan, who is the antagonist of the story comes from a wealthy Chicago…

In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the main character, Jay Gatsby, is a wealthy man who lives in a mansion. However, Gatsby was not always rich. In fact, he grew up on a poor farm in North Dakota. His love for Daisy Buchanan caused him to strive for fame and fortune with the hope of winning her over. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story is very similar. He too grew up poor and became famous in order to win over the woman he loved. Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald wanted to live the American Dream. Much…

Both Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby are similar to one another because they wanted to find love in their lives.Nick Carraway initially declares that Gatsby has represented everything for which he possesses "an unaffected scorn" only to feel admiration for the man at the end as he turns and calls to him, "They're a rotten crowd....You're worth the whole damn bunch put together". But, it is not until Nick himself becomes influenced by the decadence of the East from his association with Daisy and Tom…

Jay Gatsby: Gatsby is a newly wealthy Midwesterner-turned-Easterner who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Nick Carraway:The story's narrator. Nick rents the small house next to Gatsby's mansion in West Egg and, over the course of events, helps Gatsby reunite with Daisy (who happens to be Nick's cousin). Daisy Buchanan:Beautiful and mesmerizing. Her privileged upbringing in Louisville has conditioned her to a particular…

wealthy, white man living in New York may seem incomparable to a poor,black man living in South Chicago, many similarities may be found that connect Jay Gatsby to Walter Lee, Jr. and suggest a relation between the two. The struggles and goals of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby are easily compared to those of Walter Lee, Jr. in A Raisin in the Sun. Jay Gatsby and Walter Lee, Jr. share similar goals for their futures. Neither man is satisfied with the social class in which they were born into and…

In this novel the two main characters Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby became the best friends and found many similar qualities and traits in each other. However, they had the very different families that trained them different qualities and traits. Nick Carraway was raised by his father that gave Nick very effective mentoring for his future life. For the Jay Gatsby the most important person in his life was Dan Cody, who is the rich man that Jay met when he was a teenager and received the very…