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Similarities Between The Frog Prince And The Great Gatsby

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Have you ever watched a film or heard a story that was so eye opening and insightful that it changed your perspective on the world? Narratives, whether in literature, film or media, are able to construct realities and ideas that can resonate with the audience, something that you can relate to or even oppose against. Even in TikTok, you can see those Reddit stories and think “That doesn’t sound so nice anymore” or “I agree that pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza!” All that comes from narratives and stories that others tell which are powerful enough to allow us to have varying opinions and perspectives on a single topic. The Great Gatsby and the Frog Prince are two classic stories, one a piece of classic literature which remains relevant to the …show more content…

what does a classic novel and a kids' film have in common?! Well, there's actually so much in common between these two pieces of literature. I'll first talk about the most obvious one, the American dream. The theme of the American dream is prominent in both stories. It's all about money and success, even if you lie about it. It's probably obvious in The Great Gatsby that Jay Gatsby lies about his wealth and social status to impress Daisy, but this is actually seen in The Princess and the Frog when Prince Naveen lies about his riches and money to convince Tiana, who he thought was a princess, to kiss him and turn him back human. They both lie about being wealthy and whilst Naveen technically is a prince, he says that his parents had cut his allowance off and he “had no riches and was completely broke”, and in the same text, Tiana also comes from a lower income family just like Gatsby. Jay Gatsby embodies the American dream of self-made success, which is also a key theme in The Princess and the Frog, where Tiana is working 2 shifts, 2 jobs a day to afford the restaurant her father and she had always dreamed of. In both texts, the characters’ work hard and try to pursue their dreams of being able to get something, and I'm sure everyone has something they ultimately want or are hoping to achieve. This makes you consider the values of social expectations and society, doesn’t

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Gatsby puts on a facade and tells everyone that he inherited his money, but in reality Gatsby has other means by which he earns his money for the sake of Daisy. He stoops to a level that shows that he has no care for his morals and he will go to any extent if it means making Daisy happy and earning money. He commits multiple crimes including buying “side-street drug-stores in Chicago and [selling] grain alcohol over the counter” (Fitzgerald 133). He doesn’t care about getting in trouble with the law because he is no longer living for himself, and it seems like he is only living for Daisy, who embodies the wealthy lifestyle Gatsby has wanted his whole life. Gatsby got rich out of a sense of “desperation and crazy hopefulness, out of refusing to get over a broken heart and give up the love of his life” (Voegeli).

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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby deceives everyone around him concerning the legitimacy behind his wealth, claiming that he had become affluent through respectable means. Gatsby’s deception is intended to regain Daisy Buchanan’s love, which he had long-missed ever since before he went to war. However, with this deception, Fitzgerald makes clear the hypocrisy and deceit present in the 1920’s – deceit not only within relationships and interactions but also in the very mantra of the United States, the American dream. Fitzgerald reveals his views with Gatsby’s superfluous luxury, which he prominently displays, whether in the form of lavish parties or a grandiose house. He takes every opportunity to make his wealth known; for example, he often offers a multitude (and often excessive) of favors to Nick, implicitly desperate to make his wealthy reputation spread across the city.

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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby served as a warning, illustrating the decay and moral corruption that seeps into American society. One example of this is the character Jay Gatsby who embodies the Reckless Chase for wealth and status. As Nick Carraway notes Gatsby's Mansion is “ a copy of some fancy building in Normandy, with a tower on one side, brand new under a thin layer of green ivy” (Fitzgerald,5). Gatsby’s extravagant display of wealth is nothing but an illusion hiding his moral emptiness and the shallowness of his existence. This corruption extends beyond Gatsby himself to the privileged class that attends his parties, engaging in superficial interactions and pursuing selfish desires, unconcerned with the suffering around them.

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Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, similar themes from A Raisin in the Sun are presented in the sense that each character has his or her own American Dream due to his or her varying socioeconomic status. Originally, Gatsby had a poor socioeconomic status, which motivated him to increase his status with a lavish, over-the-top American Dream in order to please Daisy. When Gatsby confronts Tom, promising that Daisy never truly loved Tom in the first place, Gatsby uses his wealth as a factor as to why she married Tom: “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me” (Fitzgerald 130). This proves that Gatsby was motivated by Daisy’s desire for wealth to justify his lurid American Dream. Daisy, on the other hand, was quite the opposite.

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby’s desire for affluence conveys how pursuing materialistic wealth can lead to loss of morality as well as abnormal and deranged actions. Gatsby’s path to being perceived as an upscale wealthy man was not the morally correct way. The goal of Gatsby’s future is to become rich enough to qualify to be Daisy’s significant other. In order to obtain this wealth and status, he had to be deceptive. Implying Gatsby’s low morals, Hacht remarks, “Of course, to become Jay Gatsby, James Gatz had to lie to the public, in essence creating the illusion of the

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In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted that the American Dream was to be filthy rich. In the story everyone focused on wealth. The lower class wanted to be rich so they either had affairs with the rich or they became acquainted with them. Being part of the middle class wasn’t enough for people. Gatsby didn’t value who he was so he did any and everything he could do to become rich to make Daisy happy.

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that depicts the American Dream; however, the American Dream cannot be established without running over a few people in the process. Gatsby the protagonist of the novel is known to deceive others and himself; however, his lies are not meant to hurt anyone. Gatsby is lost in his desire to be rich and have Daisy’s love, and in his desire forgets about how his actions may harm others. In addition, Gatsby only wanted to be more than his parents who were “shiftless and unsuccessful farm people” (98). Gatsby’s deception goes as far as fabricating who he is, his financial standing in the past; including how he makes his money, lying to Daisy, and allowing others to tell rumors about himself.

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