The Great Gatsby
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Jay Gatsby , from the book The Great Gatsby, and Willie Loeman, from the play Death of a Salesman, are similar in many different ways, but along with those similarities come few differences. On one hand Willie doesn=t have much money, and Jay does, but on the other hand both desire it way too much. Also Willie didn=t care to much for his wife, and Jay cared too much for someone else. Yet both were not too realistic in what they wanted or believed. All and all Jay and Willie had more similarities than differences.
Jay and Willie both desire and definitely think it matters that if you have money, you will then be liked. Willie always lied to his kids about making money just so they would be proud of him even more. In his mind they would like him even more. Jay just has the money to impress people, while that worked, nobody really liked him, including Daisy who seemed that she was just using him to make Tom jealous. Neither one of them were very realistic about any of this, or on what they wanted...