Characters are faced with struggles all the time in books. What makes a character great is how they deal or react to these situations. In the Crucible John is faced with many life changing events and he has to decide what kind of man he wants to be. In the Great Gatsby Daisy is faced with a lot of different situations where she has to decide to do what’s right for herself or what’s really right. John and Daisy are every similar when it comes to the things that happen to them throughout the book. Both of them are involved in adultery and being dishonest about it. John has an affair with Abigail and Daisy has an affair with Gatsby. John flat out lies to Elizabeth about him seeing Abigail “John: I think it not easy to prove…. She told it to …show more content…
John is honest about the affair with Abigail even though it ruins his reputation he tells the truth because it is what is right and it could save a lot of people from death. “John: How do you call heaven? Whore Whore….. On the last night of my joy, some eight months past. She used to serve me in my house, Sir.” (102). But Daisy is never honest about being the one who was driving the car that hit and killed Myrtle. She let Gatsby take the fault for it and Gatsby ended up being killed because Wilson thought it was Gatsby who killed Myrtle. Daisy did what was best for her not what was right. John stayed and dealt with his consequence which ended in his death but he never ran from his mistakes he dealt with them head on. On the other hand Daisy ran from what she had done and she never told the fault for her mistakes. Also John is a humble, poor person. What had happened with Abigail was a one time thing and he saw it as a mistake that he didn’t want to repeat. With Daisy she is a rich, egotistical person. Daisy cheated multiple times and she saw nothing wrong with having both Tom and Gatsby. “I did love him once, but I loved you too,” said