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Similarities Between Gatsby And Forest Gump

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Identity Agreements Between Gatsby and Forest Gump People have different life styles and different characteristics as their identities in the society. A man who owns a company may be considered rich; a girl who smiles all the time may be considered kind. Everyone has unique identity to be distinguished from others. Some people’s characters may be very alike, and some may be completely opposite. Identity is addressed significantly in the book “The Great Gatsby” and the movie “Forest Gump”. Gatsby is a man who organizes parties for everyone; Forest Gump is a low-intelligent man who does things depending on others’ will. Both of them have struggled at wealth, friendship, and love. Both of them are considered not ordinary in others’ thought. Although both Gatsby and Forest agrees that they are different from the majority of people, Gatsby argues that he think of himself is different from what others think of him, while Forest Gump argues that he is the man who everyone else sees. Both Gatsby and Gump have a wealthy life in everyone’s eyes. Gatsby owns a big house where he does party for anyone. The narrator in the book describes it fancily as: 'The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard--it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with …show more content…

Gatsby thinks of himself as a dream chaser, a person who is working hard through his life to get his beautiful memory back to him. Money is just a tool to bring his beloved girl back. People believed that his money all came from his rich family as Gatsby wants them to, which means that he was born rich. However, Gatsby actually earned the money on his own by taking high risks selling illegal alcohol. Since he knew that Daisy married a rich man, he decided never to live without money. Gatsby doesn’t really show what he really is to the public, and that makes him a different person from what the others think of

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There were many similarities and differences between characters in both the book The Great Gatsby and The Great Gatsby movies; however, the most distinct, evident comparison and contrast were between Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan. Jay Gatsby, or James Gatz, finished his life as a well-known, eccentric, and extremely wealthy man. Not much was known about Jay Gatsby to most, but everyone knew that he always hosted wild parties at his gothic, luxurious mansion. Tom Buchanan was also a very rich many, but his personality was drastically different than Gatsby’s. Tom was not very outgoing and was recognized as a brute and a bully by most people, so he really did not have a lot of close friends.

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The exploration of identity in both The Great Gatsby and Gattaca demonstrates the detrimental effects of societal expectations, as characters struggle to maintain their true identities in the face of conformity and discrimination. In chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby, Gatsby made the decision to clear the air of the multitudes of rumours and gossip against his name and explain to Nick the supposed reality of his past, stating that “My family all died and I came into a good deal of money”. This statement, although viewed as false initially, can be perceived as symbolic. Gatsby’s family had not literally died but they became dead to him when he left home and began pursuing his version of the American dream, which ultimately led to him building his

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One’s perception of another depends heavily on how they are portrayed in reference to others around them. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, minor characters are used to solidify Gatsby’s character in the eyes of the reader. Tom Buchanan acts as a foil character to Jay Gatsby, underscoring Gatsby’s modesty to the readers, leading to the readers viewing Gatsby as a genuine character. They are most evidently opposites in terms of their treatment of others and attitudes towards social stratification. Additionally, the owl-eyed man and Nick Carraway’s dialogue indirectly characterize Gatsby as genuine and different from the crowd, influencing the readers to see him that way.

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Obsession can blind you, it can stop you from paying attention to the possible mistakes you can make because you are so focused on your goal you don’t think about anything but that. In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a fiction novel, published on April 10th 1925. Fitzgerald shows that Gatsby’s obsession with his of idea Daisy led to temporary successes that eventually led to failures. His obsession with the idea of what he thought of was the perfect Daisy led to his illegal money making business; his obsession with Daisy also led to him having no real friends and thirdly, no true love.

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A Man is Known by the Company he Keeps The novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a canvas painted with lies and pretentious attitudes. The novel is based in New York during the 1920s, the gilded age, in which everything seemed to be fantastic and shinning; however, the aesthetic only covers up a seedy culture with shallow values and little empathy. Jay Gatsby, whose real name is Jimmy Gatz, is a deceitful, manipulative man who attempts to control those around him for his own motives.

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