Donald Trump once said, “My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.” Jay Gatsby has a similar outlook on life. Gatsby and Trump view themselves as winners because their pockets are stuffed with cash. Jay Gatsby and Donald Trump can agree on anything: money. Both men are ruthless, business tycoons, and measure their success in life based on their wealth. While Gatsby meets his demise towards the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby, Donald Trump is just getting started. Donald Trump is the modern-day Jay Gatsby. Donald Trump and Jay Gatsby find comfort in lavish lifestyles, humblebrag about their warped rise to success, and are willing to go to desperate measures for a business deal. Both men love to flaunt …show more content…
It is rumored that Trump threw parties during the 90s that included teenage girls and cocaine. Women have also come forward and said that Trump sexually assaulted them during these parties. These allegations have not stopped Trump from throwing around his money to celebrate. While Donald Trump and Jay Gatsby throw some of the best parties, they tend to downplay their rise to success.
Another interesting point of comparison are Jay Gatsby and Donald Trump’s background. Jay Gatsby comes from a small town in North Dakota, but when recounting his childhood, he tells a different version to Nick. As Gatsby stumbles through his rehearsed story, Nick becomes suspense. Nick recalls the conversation,
“He hurried the phrase ‘educated at Oxford,’…with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn’t something a little sinister about him after all. ‘What part of the middle-west?’ I inquired casually. ‘San Francisco.’ ‘I see.’ ‘My family all died and I came into a good deal of money…after that I lived like a young rajah in all the capitals of Europe—Paris, Venice, Rome—collecting jewels, chiefly rubies, hunting big game, painting a little, things for myself only, and trying to forget something very sad that had happened to me long ago.’ With an effort I managed to restrain my incredulous laughter
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He goes to great lengths to try and rekindle their love. Nick explains that Gatsby bought the mansion on the bay from a specific reason: Daisy. He explains, "It was a strange coincidence," I said. "But it wasn't a coincidence at all." "Why not?" "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (63)." Jay Gatsby has broken laws, thrown massive parties, and risked his life all for one reason: Daisy. He wanted to win her back. Sadly, Gatsby let his love for Daisy blur his decision making and ultimately meets an early demise because of his love for Daisy. Donald Trump has his sights set on a different type of lady, Lady Liberty to be
Jay Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy Buchanan and can see her green light at the end of her dock from his house. One night, Gatsby “stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling.” Nick describes Gatsby reaching out at the water at Daisy’s green light. Nick thinks that it is odd that Gatsby is trembling looking across the bay at Daisy’s light. Gatsby is deeply in love with Daisy and hopes that one day she will fall in love with him again.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby provides the reader with a unique outlook on the life of the newly rich. Gatsby is an enigma and a subject of great curiosity, furthermore, he is content with a lot in life until he strives too hard. His obsession with wealth, his lonely life and his delusion allow the reader to sympathize with him.
Jay Gatsby, the main character of the story, is one character that longs for the past. Surprisingly, he spends most of his adult life trying to recapture it and, finally, dies in this pursuit. In the past, Gatsby had a love affair with the attractive young Daisy. Knowing he could not marry her because of the difference in their social status, he leaves her to gain wealth to reach her standards. Once he acquires wealth, he moves near to Daisy, "Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay (p83)," and throws extravagant parties, hoping by chance she might show up at one of them. He, himself, does not attend his parties but watches them from a distance.
He wants to marry her,but because of this problem to reach her standards. Once he reaches his goal of gaining the appropriate amount of wealth,he buys a house which is close to hers “Gatsby bought that house so Daisy would be just across the bay(p83).”He throws huge,extravagant parties,in hope that she might happen to show up at one of them. Gatsby does not actually even attend these parties,as he is not much of a socializer,instead he only watches them from a distance,inside his house. After a while Carraway,the narrator of the novel,who is a cousin of Daisy. After some discussion Nick agrees to set up a meeting between Gatsby and Daisy.
When looking at Jay Gatsby, one sees many different personalities and ideals. There is the gracious host, the ruthless bootlegger, the hopeless romantic, and beneath it all, there is James Gatz of North Dakota. The many faces of Gatsby make a reader question whether they truly know Gatsby as a person. Many people question what exactly made Jay Gatsby so “great.” These different personas, when viewed separately, are quite unremarkable in their own ways. When you take them together, however, you discover the complicated and unique individual that is Jay Gatsby.
Insincere? The definition is not expressing genuine feelings. This was a trait that was possessed by many people in the time period of the 1920’s. The detrimental effects of war and post-war life left many people questioning if genuine people still existed in the world. This was shown by two extremely influential writers of this time period, F. Scott Fitzgerald and E.E. Cummings, whose engrossment in the insincere life of others inspired and influenced them to write on it. F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, and motifs. Both selections are about the insincerity and carelessness
The novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald relates the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby through the eyes of an idealistic man that moves in next door to the eccentric millionaire. Nick Carraway comes to the east coast with dreams of wealth, high society, and success on his mind. It is not long before Gatsby becomes one of his closest friends who offers him the very lifestyle and status that Nick came looking for. As the story unfolds, it is easy to see that the focus on Jay Gatsby creates a false sense of what the story truly is. The Great Gatsby is not the tragic tale of James Gatz (Jay Gatsby), but rather the coming of age story of Nick Carraway. In many ways the journeys of Gatsby and Nick are parallel to one another, but in the end it’s Nick’s initiation into the real world that wins out.
Gatsby’s life is a vivid display of dissatisfaction and he takes extreme measures to create a life that he is happy with. In his earlier years, Gatsby lived on a North Dakota farm before deciding that he wanted to create a better life; he changed his name from Jimmy Gatz to Jay Gatsby and moved to New York, where he believed he could create a wealthy life (98). Gatsby is successful in achieving his goal of wealth, albeit through illegal bootlegging, yet he still feels he is not accomplished without Daisy. Gatsby is confident that he can get Daisy to love him again, however he is unhappy with the fact that she was ever married to Tom. He want’s Daisy to renounce her marriage to Tom, to tell him “I never love you”, essentially erasing the past four years of her l...
Apparently being wealthy is not all Gatsby wants, but also wants love from Daisy. He loves her so much he wants her to break Tom’s heart and come with him. This man is clever and cold hearted like Lord Voldemort and Sauron. Jordan glanced at Nick and told him in a calm tone, “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 78). Gatsby’s way of being in love with Daisy is to be a creepy stalker, never giving her space and always spying on her.
(Fitzgerald 77). He goes out of his way to gain millions of dollars to show her that he is good enough for her now. Gatsby decides to purchase a gaudy mansion on the West Egg, ““so that Daisy would be just across the bay”” (Fitzgerald 77), and he throws several extravagant parties weekly to get Daisy to show
As an American citizen we seem to make presumption that all cultures are different from ours, and some might even call those cultures weird. Americans fail to realize just how similar we are to these “weird” cultures. By reading Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe and The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald , it makes the reader realize how similar the African culture is from the American culture. There 's those obvious differences we already knew about with the two cultures, but readers can learn that not just American culture value men and give them advantages, but many cultures including 1900 's African culture. In both books we come across two main characters that is portrayed as being more superior compared to others. Okonkwo, main
Jay Gatsby believes that wealth and power can lead to love and happiness. He spends his entire life trying to create himself and change his past so that he can rekindle his love affair with the love of his life Daisy Buchanan. The two were young lovers, unable to be together because of very different social statuses. After Gatsby learns that he cannot be with Daisy because of this, he spends the rest of his life attempting to acquire wealth and power.
Gatsby has an uncanny devotion for the things and people he desires. Gatsby is a poor man who feels that he can win his love Daisy back, if he achieves enough material wealth. When he first meets Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby commits "himself to the following of a grail" (156). After five years of separation, he will do anything in his power to win her love back. Everything he does, up to this point is directed toward winning Daisy's favor and having her back in his life. The greatest example of his devotion towards Daisy is the mansion he constructs, "a colossal affair by any standard...with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden" (9). Once a "penniless young man without a past" (156), he transforms himself into a self-made millionaire and builds an extravagant mansion without having any history of family wealth. He also strategically places the mansion across the lake from Daisy's house. From his window, Gatsby can see the blue colored lights of her house. Even though she is marries to Tom Buchanan and has a daughter, he "revalues everything in his house according to the amount of response it draws from her well loved eyes" (96). But in the end, Gatsby's insurmountable devotion to Daisy won't be enough to win her over. He dedicates so much of his life just to be with her and ultimately it won't make any difference in the long run.
Gatsby also understands that Daisy is a woman of luxury; He realizes that now she is married and he has to put something valuable on the scale, something that will catch her attention, such as vast amount of wealth. Everything that Gatsby does has only one reason behind it—to be closer to his Daisy. Even the house he buys is “just across the bay” (Fitzgerald 85).
For example, he attempts to break the hostility between the East Egg and West Egg. “To be close to her, Gatsby buys a mansion across the bay and gives extravagant parties in the hopes that Daisy will come to one” (Telgen 70). He goes to the extreme to get her attention through dishonesty in acquiring wealth; fraud and theft is Gatsby’s secret to obtaining his riches (Berman). After achieving affluence, he spends his material wealth to attract Daisy. Daisy 's lack of character is revealed through pointing out that she would only be able to fall in love with a prosperous man. Even though all of the characters are flawed, Gatsby, who conducts illegal dealings to achieve fortune, has to lower himself to get on Daisy and Tom’s level, ultimately leading to his death (Telgen 64).