How Did The Usurps Hindley Rise To The Great Gatsby

Gaining a high social status could in return, lead to success but a life full of pain and misery. This concept is presented by both authors as they expose that the greed within individuals leads them to their misery. Heathcliff for instance, after he was emotionally wounded by Catherine’s choice to leave behind their relationship built on true love for wealth and status, he abandoned Wuthering Heights to develop his plan of vengeance. In his return, he usurps Hindley from all his power and degrades his son Hareton. His actions of revenge parallel the mistreatment Hindley enforced on Heathcliff because Heathcliff turned Hareton into an uneducated common laborer. Heathcliff then marries Isabella to take over the Grange, and he then becomes the

Jay Gatsby’s rise to the title of The Great Gatsby led several to speculation. “He’s a bootlegger… One time he killed a man” were some of the many rumors that escaped individuals’ mouths at the mention of Gatsby because no one truly got to know him to fully comprehend how he gained his status (Fitzgerald 61). He had every materialistic item an individual could ever long for, yet he lived an unsatisfied life because Daisy was not in it. Thus, once Daisy and Gatsby were finally reunited for the first time, they both were “possessed by intense life” (Fitzgerald 96). Notwithstanding, after Daisy and Gatsby were on their way back home from an argument that sparked with Tom, “Daisy stepped on” the gas pedal even though Gatsby tried to “make her stop” Daisy “turned away from the woman towards the other car” but she “turned back”( Fitzgerald 143-144). Ultimately, the second Gatsby’s “hand reached the wheel [he] felt the shock,” so Myrtle was killed instantly (Fitzgerald 144). Daisy then disappeared from Gatsby’s life to avoid the consequences that would proceed, so everyone except Nick believe Gatsby was the killer of Myrtle. Gatsby was made a victim and was killed off by Wilson in vengeance because the truth behind Myrtle’s death was never revealed. Nick Carraway once given the news suggested that “Gatsby himself didn’t believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared” (Fitzgerald 161). “He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream” implies that the last moments of Gatsby’s life he realized that his goals to be of high status to meet Daisy’s expectations was a lost cost(Fitzgerald 161). All in all, he pursued wealth and status for Daisy, and Daisy’s greed and cruelty brought him a life of misery, loneliness, and eventually his