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Similarities Between Jay Gatsby And The Natural

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Roy Hobbs and Jay Gatsby act foolish and allow temptation to win in their battles to achieve their dreams. During The Natural, Roy has a blind one-sided relationship with Memo who just wants the money from Roy. In The Great Gatsby, Jay allows his fraudulent identity to be exposed in front of Daisy due to the temptations he is pressured by. So we see that the common nature of the corruption of wealth, temptations, and flaws within ones dream led to the tragedy that we see within both Roy and Jay. The Natural was a book that brought us a retelling of the myth of parsifal in a different way. It brought the myth together with the game of baseball. Some of the key similarities we see are Roy Hobbs and Parsifal, Whammer and The Red Knight, Wonderboy
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