Similarities Between The Sun Also Rises And The Great Gatsby

The American Dream is something that we as a working class are encouraged to strive for because it was viewed as the epitome of being successful. Our two novels, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are both set during a time Gertrude Stein refers to as “a lost generation”. Happening during WWI, the Roaring 20’s became infamous for its lavish lifestyles and careless ways due to the ongoing war. Both the upper and middle class believes money and power are defining elements of their prosperity as a working person in America. However, eventually the line between happiness and wealth starts to blur as people mistakenly try to buy out their contentment. Money became such an essential to living that