Differences in Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men

A detailed Summary of Differences in Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men

The novels, The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, were very tragic. Both

novels had very strong tragic points of sense of life, impulse and tragedy itself. The Great

Gatsby, however, was a more tragic story.

The novels presented a tragic sense of life throughout the text. Inevitably they

were doomed through their own failures, errors, or even the action of the virtues before

the tragedy ever occurred. In The Great Gatsby, Mr. Wilson, angry about his wife?s death

needs to find revenge and kills Gatsby and then himself. Mr. Wilson believed he did

wrong holding Myrtle inside and planned to fix things for her murder by killing the person

with the car that hit her. He goes insane and kills Gatsby and then shoots himself to end it

all, when really Gatsby didn?t hit his wife. On the other hand, in Of Mice and Men, Lennie

was born retarded and different from everybody else. On page 45 quote ?Course he ain?t

know how to act and touches a girl?s dress and almost gets killed because he didn?t know

could have been avoided if Daisy told the truth. Tom?s jealously towards Gatsby gets

from Lennie that brought on a tragedy. For example on page 100 ?Don?t you go yellin?,

he looked back at George. Right in the back of the head, he said softly.? George thought

Approximate Word count = 657
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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