Thursday, January 6, 2011

#4 Text Connection

While reading, I drew a strong connection between the novel and the historical, romantic film The Titanic. Much akin to young Jack Dawson, Gatsby’s life journey led him from poverty to wealth. Also, they both fell from loneliness into the arms of their seemingly unattainable beloved. Gatsby’s love Daisy and Dawson’s heroine Rose both belong to disapproving affluent families, and both stories end tragically in an eventual, earth shattering, undeserved death. Both men are doomed by the same force as well: to sacrifice themselves in order to save their leading ladies. Gatsby takes the blame for Daisy’s hit and run, and Jack insists (multiple times) on giving up his chance at safety to insure Rose’s survival. Both the novel and the film share the powerful motif of triumph versus tragedy.
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  1. Allyson SprengerJanuary 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM

    I did not relate this book to The Titanic, but after reading your explanation I see how you could relate them. I feel they are different in that Gatsby waited his whole life to be with Daisy, where as Jack just met Rose and it was love at first site. The fact that they both share a forbidden love is how I see that you compared the two, but their stories play out different in that Rose and Jack both love each other and risk their lives for each other. However, Daisy does not love Gatsby the way he loves her and she deceives him and does not make sacrifices for him. She stays with her husband where she is comfortable. In the end, both Gatsby and Jack die so I see the comparison in that. Sadly, Daisy does not attend his funeral or mourn for him.

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