Gustavo E. Gonzalez
P/6 English
Essay The fate of two Stories are intertwined with each other with the core aspect of corruption with money and Greed. Gatsby and Roxie both reach for their goals, with only one of them actually making it. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s goal is to get back Daisy, however, In Chicago, Roxie’s goal is to reach stardom. However far apart these two goals are, the means to get them are similar, money. Both Gatsby and Roxie don’t achieve their dream, they both didn’t start as they are, they had to go through changes. These changes define them as the new person that they have become from the old person that they had used to be. If the old selves had seen their new selves, they would probably still do it …show more content…
Gatsby had made all his money after he had met Mr.Wolfsheim. Gatsby had always said that his family was all dead and that was how he got his fortune because he isn’t going to just tell people that he made all his money off of bootlegging liquor, and so nobody would look into finding his family, he had changed his name and said that he came into a great deal of money after his family died. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby makes all his fortune by selling liquor under the counter in a chain of drug stores all around. Gatsby also has shown that to him, there is nothing out of his reach and will do anything that he has to do to achieve his dream of Daisy falling in love with him, Gatsby would tempt the fates and make the impossible possible just to hear Daisy say that she had never loved Tom and had always loved Gatsby, this however was too much for Daisy since she can not say with all of god’s honesty that she had never loved Tom at …show more content…
Roxie had gotten her dream, but all that she had done to get to that point was unethical. She had not only cheated on Amos, but she also killed a man, lied to the media, staged all of her reactions in the courthouse, and gained the media’s supports Gatsby’s story doesn’t end so well. Gatsby’s story had ended with him protecting Daisy by saying that he was the one that was driving that night when Myrtle was hit by a car. This had lead to Wilson’s rage of him looking for Gatsby and killing him with his gun on the night that Gatsby finally uses his pool for the first time all summer. At least he had died knowing that everyone thought he had killed Myrtle instead of his love, Daisy. The only other person that had known the truth of what happened that night was his only real friend,
P/6 English
Essay The fate of two Stories are intertwined with each other with the core aspect of corruption with money and Greed. Gatsby and Roxie both reach for their goals, with only one of them actually making it. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s goal is to get back Daisy, however, In Chicago, Roxie’s goal is to reach stardom. However far apart these two goals are, the means to get them are similar, money. Both Gatsby and Roxie don’t achieve their dream, they both didn’t start as they are, they had to go through changes. These changes define them as the new person that they have become from the old person that they had used to be. If the old selves had seen their new selves, they would probably still do it …show more content…
Gatsby had made all his money after he had met Mr.Wolfsheim. Gatsby had always said that his family was all dead and that was how he got his fortune because he isn’t going to just tell people that he made all his money off of bootlegging liquor, and so nobody would look into finding his family, he had changed his name and said that he came into a great deal of money after his family died. In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby makes all his fortune by selling liquor under the counter in a chain of drug stores all around. Gatsby also has shown that to him, there is nothing out of his reach and will do anything that he has to do to achieve his dream of Daisy falling in love with him, Gatsby would tempt the fates and make the impossible possible just to hear Daisy say that she had never loved Tom and had always loved Gatsby, this however was too much for Daisy since she can not say with all of god’s honesty that she had never loved Tom at …show more content…
Roxie had gotten her dream, but all that she had done to get to that point was unethical. She had not only cheated on Amos, but she also killed a man, lied to the media, staged all of her reactions in the courthouse, and gained the media’s supports Gatsby’s story doesn’t end so well. Gatsby’s story had ended with him protecting Daisy by saying that he was the one that was driving that night when Myrtle was hit by a car. This had lead to Wilson’s rage of him looking for Gatsby and killing him with his gun on the night that Gatsby finally uses his pool for the first time all summer. At least he had died knowing that everyone thought he had killed Myrtle instead of his love, Daisy. The only other person that had known the truth of what happened that night was his only real friend,