The Great Gatsby And Their Eyes Were Watching God Analysis

People are entitled to happiness and have the ability to pursue it. Many people don’t get to achieve true happiness because they are blinded by the thought that true happiness comes from materialistic wants. The American dream is bended and deformed by society's point of view. Everyone has a different point of view. For some the American dream consists of living a lavishing life filled with money, materials, and power. Other they view the American dream as being able to have inner peace, love, and friendship. In the Novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, each protagonist desired to achieve true happiness. For example in the eyes were watching god Janie only desired love and knowing that she is valued as a person, and not look at as something lower than a mule. As for Gatsby in The Great Gatsby where he craved the love from daisy. Both craved the similar loves yet, both came from two different sides, where Gatsby was rolling in dough and doing dirty work to gain money, as for Janie she worked hard to get closer to her dream.

Through Gatsby's process of attempting to

get Daisy to love him, he fails to realize that he can’t buy Daisy’s love. Through the entire book he drench her a materials and wealth. And even though she was cheating on Tom with him, she still loved her husband Tom. He based his happiness of Daisy. One example he shows was when he threw a lavishing party and daisy shows signs of not enjoying herself. It had nothing to with Gatsby, but none other than the fact that she came from a lifestyle of small parties based off of status and affairs. Yet Gatsby had felt that he had wronged Daisy. In the middle of the novel Gatsby tell daisy “If it wasn't for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns all night at the end of your dock." Daisy put her arm through his abruptly, but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed near to her, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one.” This shows us that now that Gatsby had Daisy he doesn't really want her. He wanted the idea of her and now that he has her he doesn’t know what to do anymore, yet he is so blinded by his love for Daisy that he didn’t realize that his American dream was fading away and that he was going to be back to square one.

As for Janie she experience a hard time throughout the entire novel, she wanted to just be loved for who she was a person, yet all that she received was judgement and loveless marriages.Through the book you can tell that she tends to be unhappy especially when she married her second husband Joe Stark. Their marriage started off good but went bad a while after they got married. One big sign for the end of love in the marriage was when Joe decided to insult her in the store in front of everyone. The argument says”T ain’t no use in gettin’ all mad, Janie, ‘cause Ah mention you ain't no young gal no mo’. Nobody in heah ain't lookin’ for no wife outa yuh. Old as you is” Janie responds “Naw, Ah ain’t no young gal no mo’ but den Ah ain't no old woman neither. Ah reckon Ah looks mah age too. But Ah’m uh woman every inch of me, and Ah know it, Dat’s uh whole lot more’n you kin say. You big-bellies round here and put out a loud of brag, but tain't nothin’ to it but yo’ big voice.Humph! Talkin’ bout’ me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de change uh life.” The arugment started over a piece of tabacco, which show how that this little problem was her breaking point. When she first met Joe, she was dazzled and living in her American dream, yet it was short lived for her. Their relationship had hit rock bottom, and soon after Joe died she found a new man named Tea Cup. He was younger than her yet they had their ups and downs in the relationship. By the end of the novel she had killed Tea Cup and within his death she found inner peace and happiness. She finally felt like she had reached her dream.

Gatsby and Janie both had similar goals throughout their novels, yet both had come from two different point of views.

For Gatsby he had given everything into Daisy or as much as she would let him. His world revolved around her, and it wasn’t necessarily her it was the thought of having her. For Janie she had gone husband after husband of bitter relationships and always being bossed around. There is something both Janie and Gatsby have in common, their relationships started of good but then soon turned bitter. Yet Janie had came closer to her dream because she had accepted what was. Gatsby couldnt accept the thought that Daisy love Tom and not him, so in one last burst of his blinded love he saved her from the police forces and ended up get a bullet through his body.In the end Janie was able to come closer to her American dream than

Gatsby.