Compare And Contrast Nick Carraway And Jay Gatsby

Most, if not many, authors use their talents of writing to express how they feel or to reveal in a concealed manner their life story. This is almost a coping mechanism for writers. A great example writer is F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald demonstrates how he manifested his love for his wife Zelda. The characters and stories in The Great Gatsby are very well related to F. Scott Fitzgerald, his life, and the people he knew and loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald relates himself to both Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. He uses Carraway as an outside perspective on his life through Gatsby. Like Nick, Fitzgerald is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school, who moves to New York after the war. He is also like Gatsby in a way where he is a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and living a life in affluence who falls in love with a gorgeous young lady while assigned to a base in the South. After becoming a superstar in the writing world, Fitzgerald fell into wild, and audacious habits of parties and corruption, while fiercely trying to charm Zelda by writing so that he would make lots of money. Similarly, Gatsby assembles a great amount of wealth at a young age, and dedicates himself to obtaining
Fitzgerald was commissioned a second Lieutenant to Camp Sheridan where he met and fell in love with the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Judge, Zelda Seyre who was of the age eighteen. Before he was ever deployed, he moved to New York CIty hoping to launch a career in advertising lucrative enough to convince Zelda to marry him. Fitzgerald eventually quit his job after a few months and went back to school to write. Jay Gatsby also was in the war, went to New York, and became rich in order to impress and win over the one he loved, Daisy. Practically the whole book parallels Fitzgerald’s life; the message is pretty