Comparative paragraph F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby

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Comparative paragraph – F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jay Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel The Great Gatsby, the main character-Jay Gatsby and Fitzgerald are extremely similar to each other. However, there are also differences that Fitzgerald made to Gatsby in order to express his own weaknesses. Basically, there are three fields that are most obvious when comparing: their family background and education, their Romantic Idealism and their ambition. First of all, both of them were born in a middle classed family. Fitzgerald’s father was originally fairly wealthy but he became unsuccessful after the crash of his business. Same with Gatsby, he also came from a some what underprivileged family, which influenced a lot on his personality and his goal. Nevertheless, Fitzgerald was someone who had a family root in Maryland, unlike him; Gatsby lied about his family background to impress Daisy. Other than that, they were both drop-outs from their Universities and joined the army in 1917. Secondly, both men were motivated to work hard and grow to be successful for their loved ones. For Fitzgerald it was Zelda Sayre whom he said to be his “golden girl”, to win her heart he used his talents to write novels which made him famous and rich, which was also the only way to live up to Zelda’s “golden” standards. Similarly, Jay Gatsby’s dream girl would be Daisy, she was a beautiful expensive flapper, but because that “rich girls don’t marry poor boys”, Gatsby would do anything to make money in order to propose to her. Thirdly, while Fitzgerald had the ambition of becoming wealthy even when he was a child, similarly Gatsby despised his poverty at a young age and promised to work hard to make money when he grows up. Conversely, the method that they used to become rich is not the same. Unlike Fitzgerald who earns his way through by writing, Gatsby makes all his money by
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