Similarities Between Fences And The Great Gatsby

Fences and The Great Gatsby both have many characters that plays a significant role in the story. Both stories also have characters in the story that has changed due to the past or are changing throughout the story. There were many character changes in The Great Gatsby and Fences. For example, Troy leaving his family as a kid due to his father kicking him out the house at the age fourteen. This was a major change for Troy, because this act made Troy treat his family an unusual way people would usually treat their love ones. Troy is the protagonist in the book Fences. Troy is the father of Lyons and Cory, and husband of Rose. Switching to some examples from the Great Gatsby is when Daisy loved Gatsby during the war, then started to love someone

else because she thought Gatsby died after the war. When Daisy finds out that Gatsby was still alive after the war, her love and passion change courses again and started loving Gatsby again while being married to Tom. In both stories there is always an obstacle or an event that happened to a character to change their motivation or even their thought on the world.
Fences has many father-son altercations other than Troy and his father.

"Sometimes I wish I hadn't known my daddy. He ain't cared nothing about no kids.” (50). Troy and Cory have a misunderstanding on what to do for Cory’s next step in his life for college. Troy wants Cory to stop playing football so he can just have the job and be at school. Troy does not want Cory to have any other distraction from the two. Cory is being recruited by a college, everyone in the house is happy for him except his father. The relationship between Troy and Cory is bitter and stressed mostly because Troy is trying to treat Cory the same way he was treated by white people in sports and how he was treated by his father. Troy feels that Cory is disobeying his rules or what he tells him not to do which is to stop playing football. Which counted as strike one. Strikes were warning of disobeying rules told by Troy. If someone gets three strikes from Troy, they will be removed from the house. Life for Troy as a kid was a struggle, living on a farm with ten siblings and a father who barely cares for his kids. His father just wanted his kids to learn how to walk so they can get the working and help around the farmhouse. Before Troy even thinks about leaving his home as a fourteen-year-old, his mother already left because she did not feel comfortable around Troy’s father “evilness”. So, once she left that influence Troy to think about leaving his home which he did because his father kicked him out the

house.
The Great Gatsby didn’t have as many altercations as Fences had. But the story did have many transformations throughout the story. Only one character had a transformation that didn’t happen in the story and that character was Jimmy Gats, also known as Jay Gatsby. The transformation Gatsby had that was not in the story was him living in a farm during his childhood. His family was basically poor at the time and Gatsby wanted to be something bigger in life. Gatsby started to do organized crimes to get money to become richer. After all these crimes he committed he decided to join the army which was a major change for Gatsby. Gatsby started to change his motivation which was to love Daisy. “He hadn't once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.” (112)
There will always be a change in throughout the story to a character, to make the story have good progression throughout the book and have readers continue reading the book.