The Great Gatsby - Comparison of Gatsby and Tom Buchanan
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby, a wonderful novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about a man by the
name of Jay Gatsby, and Jay’s dream is that through wealth and power, one can acquire
happiness. To get to this happiness Jay must reach into the past and relive an old dream.
In the past, Jay had a love affair with the affluent Daisy, knowing he could not marry her
because he was poor at the time he left her and went to fight in the war. But once he had
became rich five years later, he hunted her down and moved close to her, and her new
husband Tom Buchanan.
Overall, Tom Buchanan and Mr. Gatsby are completely two different types of men,
in my opinion. Although there are limited examples of how they are similar. Both of the
men had a fondness for Nick Carraway, cousin to Daisy and neighbor to Gatsby. ‘ “ This
is just a friend…” ‘ (page 71.) Gatsby explains to Meyer Wolfsheim about......
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