Although
Some Like It Hot is a comedy and The Great Gatsby is a tragedy, both
works use popular culture to portray life in 1920s America. Focusing on the following elements
(characterization, conflict, and theme), discuss how the two works are similar
and different and what each is saying about American life.
In both
of the stories, it explains in some way that each person has gone through a hardship
and is trying to get away from a part of their life. It seems thought that both centralize around
love, romance, and marriage. Also, there
is the fact that it was around the time of the prohibition and at least one of
the characters in each story had a connection to that, especially when it includes
crime and murder. Such as when it was
revealed that Gatsby was involved in bootlegging. When it comes to the characters, each one can
be connected from one book to the other.
From Some Like It Hot, the
character Joe, also known as Josephine and Junior the billionaire, he can
easily be connected to Gatsby. Both had
tried anything they could to get close to the girl they loved, even if it meant
that they were with someone else or have had bad relationships in the
past. Then there is Sugar, who is like
Daisy, both being the girl that every girl wants to be and every guy wants to
be with. A final example is Spats, who
is like both Gatsby and Wolfshien. Both were
involved in the wrong kind of business, one of which had ended up having them
killed in end. Although there are many
similarities that you can make between the two, there are also some major
differences. Such as, in The Great Gatsby, the love stories that
were involved in it had ended up more of a tragedy for many. While on the other
hand, in Some Like it Hot, the main
love story that it had focused on, those two people had actually ended up
together in the end. Then there is the
obvious between the two that one is a tragedy, the other being a comical love
story where the people who actually love each other end up together.
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