Ben Carr Contrast and Compare Black Boy and the Great Gatsby The difference between the white Anglo Saxon, freewheeling, Charleston-dancing life of the affluent Northerners is so sharp a contrast between the fear, exploitation and general hopelessness of southern African Americans you should keep it away from small children. An example: In Black Boy almost every other paragraph is marred by a slap in the face towards someone less than 20 years of age. In Gatsby …showed first 75 words of 930 total…

…showed last 75 words of 930 total…indeed. The creation of rifts between people in groups show’s transition. In Gatsby it showed how adamant about keeping the new wealthy out of society the old wealthy were. In Black Boy, in order to protect themselves and each other the African Americans had to fight the independence out of Richard. This tough love helped very little. Nature, society, and equality fluctuated in the 1920's , meeting in certain spots only to quickly becoming nil.