Similarities Between The Great Gatsby And Cormac Mccarthy

Dreams vs. Reality Cormac McCarthy has written many terrific novels including the book “The Road”. In this book McCarthy uses the theme dreams vs. Reality often. Many other authors have also used this theme, including F. Scott Fitzgerald. Cormac McCarthy and F. Scott Fitzgerald have very different writing styles, although they both have the reoccurring theme of dreams vs. reality. In the book “The Road” there are numerous examples of how McCarthy compares dreams and reality. One of the main of examples of this is the man dreaming of his wife. In the story, the wife is never physically there; she is always a thought, a memory or a dream. The old man often dreams of their perfect relationship and how wonderful and gorgeous she was. He dreamt of her in a magnificent
Scott Fitzgerald uses the theme of dreams vs. reality in his books. It is most prominent in the book “The Great Gatsby”. In this book Jay Gatsby pursues his dreams to be in a relationship Daisy Buchanan. In this quest he overcomes and succumbed to many obstacles. His main obstacle was winning Daisy back and living the perfect life just as he dreamt. Gatsby needed to face reality and realize that he can not reverse time. Nor can he instantly make his dreams true. Reality was that Gatsby was too late, Daisy had fallen in love with Tom Buchanan and Gatsby’s love would not be enough to split there relationship. This is a clear example that dreams will not always become reality. In Jay Gatsby’s case, his dreams overcame him. He dreamt of Daisy and their perfect future, he made this his goal and only goal. He started evolving his entire life around it by buying a huge mansion across the bay from the Buchanans and throwing huge parties on the weekends. The line between reality and dreams was blurred and Gatsby started to mistake his dreams for reality. Once his dreams were crushed his reality was crushed and Gatsby’s emotion caught up to him and inevitably led to