Gatsby

Comparison between Myrtle and Gatsby:

- Corrupted by class

-Myrtle wants to get in with Tom (mistress of a upper class person)

-Gatsby loses his own dreams to be apart of that class and gain that class (corrupted)

- Both dreamers (ambitions)

- Both get killed

- Myrtle sweeps into plaza as if a bunch of servants are there (believe that they are apart of the upper class)

- Gatsby thinks that because he has a big mansion that he is part of the upper class but he isn't

- Both lower class with big dreams

- Irony of both deaths

- Fitzgerald is showing that the American dream is no longer possible

- Both make lists

-list of resolves (Gatsby)

-both still posers

- American restlessness

- Reference to Daisy’s laziness “paralyzed with happiness”

- Aspiring to what Tom and Daisy had achieved--- American Dream was not achieved for them