The classic novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, portrays a sarcastic fable of the pursuit of success and the collapse of the American Dream. In the novel similarities and differences between two friends, Nick and Gatsby, are compared to show the good and evil in the new, old, and no money societies. Nick Carraway, the narrator and character, is a middle class gentleman that comes from the upper Midwest. From a fairly common …
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…though Nick and Gatsby both come from the Mid West, each character progresses into two very different people. Nick, a dreamer like Gatsby, can provoke ideas and dreams but can come back from his fantasies and face reality. Unlike Gatsby, whom enters a dream and forwards into his dream until he does not know the difference between reality and dream. This off-putting habit of Gatsby results in his death and the collapse of his dream.