Beautifully written, the conclusion to Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby leaves readers pondering over the possibility of recreating the past and with a glimmer of hope. Throughout the novel, Gatsby strives to relive the past and marry his true love from years past, Daisy. Gatsby has “come a long way to the blue lawn,” where Daisy lives and he prays that they will reunite (Fitzgerald 180). When Nick first arrives to West Egg, he sees Gatsby staring at a green light in the distance entranced with wonder
Barrett-Browning’s attitudes about love have developed from uncertainty to acceptance. Comparatively, the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ by Fitzgerald explores notions of idealised love,
The moral concerns of an era are constructed by social attitudes; comparing texts give us an insight into how author attitudes are shaped by their era. Both F.Scott. Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barret Browning’s’ The sonnets from Portuguese explore these themes through the central dogma of Ever changing trainset love and the detrimental or beneficial connotations of the stereotypes of gender specific societal roles. Both composers examine how a love based on material concerns