Great Gatsby and the Sun Also Rises
Live for the day, because tomorrow may never come, an often-heard motto in the 1920's and the themes of two well-known novels of the 1920's. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway and The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are two novels about the lost generation. They are striving to find an order for their world, a world that has been shattered. They attempt to reach their allotment dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to reach its imaginary goals. Not only are the themes of these two novels similar, but the characters within the novels have many similarities. An example of two characters that are similar would be Jay Gatsby, from the novel The Great Gatsby and Robert Cohn, from the novel The Sun Also Rises. These two characters, Jay Gatsby and Robert , are similar because they are both the romantics of the novels, they are also the rich outsiders.Robert Cohn and Jay Gatsby are both outsiders of the novels and are not wanted by the crowed. The title The Great Gatsby is like a paradox, for Jay Gatsby is neither great no Gatsby. Jay's real name is Gatz and he can not be great, because he is not accepted by
Robert Cohn and Jay Gatsby are similar in many ways, because of their romantics and money. Their hope to make their dream come true has only turned into a ritual, such as Gatsby's parties or the bull fights in order to give their life meaning. At worst, they merely have the courage to see that they are forlorn. They are "hemmed in by a birth they did not choose and a death toward which they must inexorably move." The excessive drinking of the entire group is symptomatic of their dread of cold reality. Gatsby and Cohn have to realize that a belief in fairytales and princesses and happy endings, a faith that life can be special, remarkable, beautiful, isn't reality. That life doesn't end happily ever after, but "isn't it pretty to think so." the person, he most desires to be with, for he is an outsider. Gatsby being part of the "new rich" makes him an outsider as well as him living in West Egg, for it is the less fashionable, this allows him not to be accepted in the group. Jake says, "'Cohn has a wonderful quality of bringing out the worst in anybody.'" Robert Cohn is a Jew at Princeton, at a time when Jews didn't attend
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