Great Gatsby & Jake, Reinvented

Great Gatsby & Jake, Reinvented


Human Ambitions
In the eyes of Jay Gatsby and Jake Garrett, being stubborn enough that risking everything for a loved one, truly showed how ambitious they were. The main characters, Gatsby from The Great Gatsby, and Jake, from Jake, Reinvented, completely commit their lives to being “the one” for their loved ones, Daisy in The Great Gatsby and Didi in Jake, Reinvented. Every one of their actions were only designed to further benefit themselves in getting closer to reuniting the past with Daisy and Didi. Gatsby and Jake ignore any sense of reality that their love plans will backfire and cause more harm than good. Both characters are ignorant that their loved ones are living in the past, and try and push every obstacle in between them out of the way to fulfill their hopeless romantic desires.
When reading The Great Gatsby and Jake, Reinvented, it is clear to see that Daisy and Didi were the only ones that Gatsby and Jake wanted to spend the rest of their lives with. When talking to their friends, Nick Carraway in Great Gatsby and Rick Paradis in Jake, Reinvented, the only people that they ever wanted to talk about were Daisy and Didi. Neither of them wanted to date anyone else even though they had the means to do so if they so choose to do so. In Jake’s case, he had the authority about him that he could date anyone he wanted, with girls lining up to be that one, and yet Jake sat back and waited for that person to be Didi. With Gatsby, he was in a similar boat. He had people that wanted to be with him too, but yet he brushed them off and concentrated on getting Daisy’s attention. They each host enormous parties in their monster house in order to become popular and hopefully attract the attendance of Daisy and Didi at one of them. For them specifically Gatsby and Jake dress up and try to show off their new personalities to Daisy and Didi. To add to the obsession, Gatsby and Jake purposefully move into an area that is nearby Daisy and Didi where they can keep a...

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