The Great Gatsby By George Orwell - 1539 Words

Palahniuk himself even states that Fight Club is the modernised version of The Great Gatsby, when he refers to it as ‘just The Great Gatsby updated a little’. We see when we compare the novels that culture and values have evolved but themes and issues challenging society in the 1920’s world of The Great Gatsby, are still present seventy years later in the 1990’s world of Fight Club. The Great Gatsby is about America’s decline and the fall of the American dream with the struggle of the classes, and Fight Club is the continuation of this but also the rejection of the American Dream. Both novels, although with similarities and differences, represent the zeitgeists of their times effectively. The subject of America’s decline with the increasing materialistic society is a major theme in the Great Gatsby which is continued in Fight Club. We are also able to see similarities and contrasts in the characters and the roles they play in each novel. We ca n compare each novel’s narrator, their reliability as narrators and the differing relationships they have with the protagonist. The changing roles and attitudes towards women is also a major theme in The Great Gatsby and is continued in Fight Club where we see the roles and attitudes now are very different. In many ways the world of The Great Gatsby and the world of Fight Club are parallel. The Great Gatsby and Fight Club have different settings and types of societies. In The Great Gatsby, the Valley of Ashes is described as ‘aShow MoreRelatedGeorge Orwell s The Great Gatsby 1684 Words   |  7 Pagesadmit their wrong or surrender forgiveness it lead to many deaths and future injuries.†One Cumberland Plateau town found one thousand murder indictments stretching from the end of the civil war† (165). 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