After reading both The Great Gatsby and The death of a Salesman I noticed a few similarities bewteen each stories main character. Willy Loman and Gatsby both lived their life by trying to live a dream. Gatsby wanted his dream life to be with Daisy because that was his true love. Gatsby eventually gets a chance to be with Daisy but he ends up dieing. Willy Loman has somewhat of a similar story as Gatsby. His dream life was becoming a very successful business man. I think this was his dream life because thats all he really knew how to do because thats basically what he did his job his whole life. The only problem he has was that his sons Biff and Happy did not have successful careers and that hurt Willy a lot. Biff and Happy tried to make their father as happy as possible but Willy had one plan in his mind set out for his sons which did not work out and ended up being the result of Willy's death. Both Gatsby and Willy tried their best to accomplish what they wanted done in their life, and they tried at any cost possible but they both ended up losing their lives in the long run. Maybe if they were of the damage they were causing people around them that really cared about the both of them then the reuslts of each story might have been different. I believe that Gatsby and Willy really were good men but just let the dream of living a perfect life get in the way of them really living a long and perfect life with people around them that loved and cared for them.
Focus: one thing I would like readers of this blog to focus on is the similarites between both characters of Willy and Gatsby. Also, how they ultimately ended up having the same result in their lives because of the way they lived it.
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Nick, there is one particularly confusing sentence in your post that I think is confusing only because there is a typo of some sort. You write, "Maybe if they were of the damage they were causing people around them that really cared about the both of them then the reuslts of each story might have been different." I think maybe you meant to say, "Maybe if they were aware of the damage they were causing for the people around them that really cared about them, then the results of each story might have been different."
ReplyDeleteI mention this only because I think this statement is incredibly important to your post and something that I would like to have read more about. Were Willy and Gatsby too busy caring about others and what others thought that they didn't attend to their own lives? Or, were they so self-absorbed that they didn't see how their actions affected those closest to them? Questions like these would make for great analytic essays.
I like your approach on this particular post, it was rather interesting and i enjoyed reading your post. I too believe that Gatsby and Loman were great men deep down inside! Good Job
ReplyDeleteNick, I like the approach. I focused on making similar comparisons between Gatsby and Willy. Both men fell into the trap of trying to make something of themselves when in actuality they already had it goin before they messed it. Both men also got caught in the hype of the 1920s and they couldn't "hang". Good Job.
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