Great Gatsby Modernism Analysis

Modernism Characteristic and Theme

Both Of Mice and Man and The Great Gatsby, are novels that represent authors’ lives. John Steinbeck’s George and Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, two outwardly different characters are disillusioned, and lost faith with their American Dream, but for totally opposite reasons.
George and Gatsby are both lonely, although the lives they lived were completely different from each other–one is rich the other is poor.

In the novels, modern characteristic-sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American Dream is demonstrated through two distinct men, whose lives are greatly different from each other. At the beginning, George believes that he can achieve his American Dream–to have a decent life and a place of
George as a ranch worker has to constantly travel and have no family made him lonely. “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re poundin’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to” As George described himself, he is lonely because he does not belong to any place, and have to move from place to place, with no real goal to working towards to. In contrast, Gatsby is rich, though he throws extravagant parties every weekend, and there are a lot of uninvited guests, no one really cared about if Gatsby is at the parties or not. “I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited–they went there...Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.”(Fitzgerald 41). Gatsby lived a lonely life from the beginning till the end. “A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby's father. And as the time passed and the servants
Both novels contain full of examples of modern characteristic-sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the American Dream, through characters, symbolism, and foreshadowing. The most prominent examples, illustrated by the characters itself, they are also used, to tell author’s point of view of the American Dream. George and Gatsby are looking at the American dream from opposite sides, although one is rich and one is poor, they both believing in it, and works hard towards it. At the end, they both have got the similar conclusion: the American Dream is not possible. For George, he knows he will never achieve his American Dream with his financial status, where Gatsby’s American Dream is hollow and meaningless to him. The characters showed: American Dream is hollow and unrealistic, which to warn people of their mindless hope, and therefore influences their belief for the American