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Gatsby VS Ruth
Title: Gatsby VS Ruth
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1298 | Pages: 5.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Gatsby VS Ruth
Gatsby vs. Ruth: The Battle of Self-Creation
In Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the main characters, Ruth and Gatsby, go through a process of re-inventing themselves. Each character tries to change themselves so they can, in some way, improve their lives. Though each character tries to re-invent themselves, both of their reasons for doing so are completely different. The characters may have …showed first 75 words of 1298 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1298 total…that she killed Myrtle, and that was the reason why George killed Gatsby, then himself.
Weldon and Fitzgerald both intrigue us with their tales of self-invention. Each use, basically, the same methods for their re-creations, but each use different modus operandi. Weldon uses revenge as the path to a better self, and Fitzgerald uses love as his path. It does not matter which path they took, they both ended up in the same spot: Guilt.
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