Pride And Prejudice And The Great Gatsby Similarities

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, are two books that both have major plot points and events that start because of love, however, the differences between the love and the circumstances of the characters are incredibly different and varied. The Great Gatsby is set in the 1920s which was a time of an incredible explosion of culture in America after the First World War while Pride and Prejudice was set in the early 1800s during the Regency period, a time of sophistication and art. Love varies throughout individuals and their circumstances however you can clearly define certain relations in love, such as romantic, familial, and platonic. While each of these is still love they often will manifest in

We see how class affects love in both books via Elizabeth and Darcy or Daisy and Gatsby. Lady Catherine de Bourgh disapproves of Elizabeth because she isn’t from a noble or pedigreed family and Darcy and Anne, her daughter and his cousin, marry as “[t]hey are descended on the maternal side, from the same noble line; and, on the father’s, from respectable, honorable, and ancient, though untitled families.” (Pride and Prejudice 337). Gatsby’s story however was incredibly different as “He had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself — that he was fully able to take care of her. As a matter of fact, he had no such facilities” (The Great Gatsby 112). He left her and tried to make his way up in society and eventually got to where he was, however, Daisy, the one he worked so hard for, had already married someone else. However different their stories might be overcoming class differences for the one you love is one that holds throughout the