Similarities Between Their Eyes Were Watching God And The Great Gatsby

The Wrong Road to the Right Place Satisfaction is unreachable. There will always be a desire for more. For something that seems impossible. Yet one still strive towards it. The novels, Their Eyes were Watching God and The Great Gatsby, there were many characters that were affected by their desires. From each, there were characters that ruminate over their ambitions, like Gatsby and Jody. Each one of them though also had somebody they were affecting such as, Daisy and Janie. In The Great Gatsby, the narrator, Nick, told us about Gatsby’s life through his eyes. Their Eyes were Watching God also had many ambitions intertwined within. It is shown through Janie’s perspective who has a single ambition. To

Janie has many encounters with men where she felt love but she couldn’t maintain them. Her first husband held no love but rather only respect for Janie. The first husband was a gateway to her second lover, Jody. Jody loved Janie and she to him but as time progressed his ambitions destroyed what they had previously cherished. The ambition for satisfaction can consume a person’s entire existence to themselves and others.
Although having ambition is considered a good thing, it can be taken too far and hurt others around us. Ambition can get in the way of how people perceive others feelings and might not see how it affects others like how in The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's ambition for Daisy was so strong that he didn’t stop to think about how the situation was affecting her. Gatsby went and told Tom that Daisy never loved him, and that hurt Daisy because she did love Tom at one point. Daisy senses something is going to go wrong and tries to diffuse the tension when Gatsby confronts Tom and the conversation goes “I’ve got something to tell you old sport-’ began Gatsby. But Daisy guessed at his intention. ‘Please don’t! She interrupted helplessly. ‘Please let’s all go home. Why don’t we all go home?”(130) Gatsby wants Daisy so badly that he doesn’t listen to her and continues to say to

For Gatsby, ambition caused him to mistreat and assume how others felt to conform to his ambitions. Jody has to show his dominance over Janie to show that he is still the man he dreams to be, so he hit her. Gatsby also was so blinded by by his ambition that when he realized it couldn’t ever happen, he was shattered and lost. His life lost purpose because his dreams of being with Daisy forever kept him from thinking of a future without her. Jody was also blinded by his ambition. Jody created an image that he was better than everybody else even though he wasn’t but he couldn’t accept that he needed to change for him to be who he wanted to. Ambition creates a falsehood of whatever the person desires and tricks oneself into believing no matter who you’re affecting, your aspirations are more