Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Their Eyes Were Watching God

Someone once said,”there is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” Love can lead people to fulfill their desires but love can also hurt. The idea of love gives an image of happiness and one yearning for what they do not have. In the novels “The Great Gatsby” by F.Scott Fitzgerald and “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, written during the 1920’s, introduces key characters striving to obtain their goals in life of love. Fitzgerald illustrates love towards the main character, Jay Gatsby, seeking the love of Daisy Buchanan who struggles to recreate the past love with her. However, Hurston introduces Janie Crawford who wants to fulfill her dream of finding the pure love that she has always wanted. But along the

For instance, Fitzgerald uses the green light to represent Gatsby’s aspiration of gaining Daisy’s love. At first Nick saw Gatsby reaching out his arm towards the green light “trembling”(Fitzgerald 12). This emphasizes that Gatsby is being illuminated by the green light of his hopes for love that he could not have. The author uses the green light throughout the novel as the situation between Gatsby and Daisy alternation to compare it with Gatsby’s feelings being close to

Janie Crawford has been seeking for true love that resembles the pear tree of the youthful pure love. To illustrate, “Janie had spent most of the day under a blossoming pear tree in the backyard”(Hurston 10). This shows her envisioning her expectations of happiness through the blooming of the tree “creaming and frothering with delight”(11). She believes that the love life she must have has to be similar to how the tree is given off of that shows the love and sexual awakening of the main character. In addition, it said,”here Nanny had taken the biggest thing God ever made, the horizon-for no matter how far a person can go the horizon is still beyond you”(89). Janie has been living Nanny’s life since she married Logan and the horizon symbolizes unreachable dreams that every person might want but could not have. Later on, she meets two characters name Joe Starks who gave her love and affection but did not let Janie have a free life until she met Tea Cake that gave her everything she wanted such as happiness, love, and laughter. Janie’s dream were always far to accomplish but when she reaches them, it didn’t last long because she faced obstacles that blocked her way from achieving happiness in