Compare Sea Wolf and Great Gatsby

Life isn't life until it is lived to its fullest potential. In a credo written by Jack London, expresses the idea that a person should use his life to make it the best that he believes it can possibly be, no matter what is done to achieve it. Two books that accurately portray this idea are The Sea Wolf by Jack London and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The characters of Jay Gatsby and Wolf Larsen validate the theory that life is created to live and grow into the most dominant form of that person in order to survive and thrive. In the novel The Sea Wolf by Jack London, the character of Wolf Larsen mirrors the meaning of a credo written by the same author in that both talk about living life to what he believes to be its fullest potential, and not caring what is done to achieve it. Over the years and starting from nothing, Wolf Larsen built this life on his ship, The Ghost, and has gained the knowledge to not only be one of the strongest men on the ship, but also one of the smartest, and claiming his rank as captain. This form of determination and strive to be the best can best be seen in lines seven and eight in the credo, "I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." Wolf doesn't want to wait to make his life great, he wants to work hard and use the life that he is given to rise up and achieve a status in the society that he has created on the boat. Though some of his methods are unorthodox when trying to achieve or maintain power, for instance, beating up crew members who were dissatisfied with his practices or even stealing all of the crew members money through manipulation and poker, that was what he needed to do to create the life that he had been striving for since he was a young child. As the novel progresses, Wolf begins to deteriorate and ends up becoming blind but, while losing his eyesight, was still able to show his dominance by destroying Hump's work in repairing the ship. This illustrates similar meaning behind