Great Gatsby and the Sun Also Rises

Title: Great Gatsby and the Sun Also Rises
Category: Literature / English | Words: 756 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Great Gatsby and the Sun Also Rises

Live for the day, because tomorrow may never come, an often-heard motto in the 1920’s and the themes of two well-known novels of the 1920’s. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway and The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, are two novels about the lost generation. They are striving to find an order for their world, a world that has been shattered. They attempt to reach their allotment dream, and the downfall of those …showed first 75 words of 756 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 756 total…by a birth they did not choose and a death toward which they must inexorably move." The excessive drinking of the entire group is symptomatic of their dread of cold reality. Gatsby and Cohn have to realize that a belief in fairytales and princesses and happy endings, a faith that life can be special, remarkable, beautiful, isn’t reality. That life doesn’t end happily ever after, but "isn’t it pretty to think so."

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