How Does Janie Relate To The Great Gatsby

Gatsby Vs. Janie Rough Draft Janie and Gatsby spent long portions of their life trying and trying again to get closer to their dream of spending their life with the perfect person to live the perfect life.
Janie got closer because unlike Gatsby, who never got to spend more than a day with Daisy, Janie took the chance of complete failure by running away with an almost complete stranger just so she could live the rest of her life how she had hoped that it would've gone when she envisioned it. In the book Gatsby portrays himself as being someone who has a long line of family that has lived in wealth with high levels of education and success. It turns out that it was all a lie, he got his wealth not by inheritance, but by illegal methods.

Unlike Killicks where he threw aside her apron because he saw it as if that makes her less of the person that she is which she hates, she wants to feel young and beautiful but does not want to be a couch potato like her nanny, just sitting and staying where she's at never trying to do more for her life. Janie never wants to stop striving or reaching for something better at this point, mainly because she feels that there is always something she can do better or improve on. So when Tea Cake dies a part of her died with him in a way, all the time she spent with him was a part of the perfect life that she was living and she was so in love with him that it deeply impacted her life, but I don't believe that that destroyed who she was at the end of it. At that point, Janie's dream was not to find someone to take care of, but in a way what her dream was to be able to have more dreams and not just stop trying to reach for more just because she is happy now. Her horizon is what she keeps reaching during the whole book, and now she has learned more things, such as fishing and playing

Janie took every chance she could get to reach what she wanted, and between Janie and Gatsby, Janie got a lot closer to her dream because it's a lot harder to take away what she gained then to take away what Gatsby worked for. What Janie gained was a lot of self-confidence and the ability to reach far for what she wants, unlike Gatsby because what he gained was just a lot of money, and respect from people. Although gatsby does look like he became more successful than Janie, everything he has can, and was taken away from him since he got it by doing criminal things like illegal. So for him to be more successful in gaining his dreams then he has to have gained something more than money and a big house, things like confidence or dedication to do something. I believe Janie is more successful because even though she lost Tea Cake, her dreams will not stop there, she learned a lot of things that she can use to create her own perfect life even if it is not with the man she wanted to be with. She learned to never give up and to never stay still, she knows she can always do better. Janie's dreams were opposite from her nanny, her nanny just wanted Janie to be someone who is taken care of just so she can be sitting down all day,