F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Charles Foster Kane have many correlations in their construction. It explains that each character represents a man that is led by the past to overcome inner turmoil and right the wrongs that they perceive as assaults on their existence. It also mentions that the characters both believe that monetary gain will resolve these issues and that money demonstrates control over others in the world. It explores what they truly desire, love, which is unobtainable because even when the opportunity for love presents itself the characters cannot release the anger that has flourished inside of them.
Scott .F. Fitzgerald's cult novel "The Great Gatsby" and Orson Wells cinematic masterpiece "Citizen Kane" both explore similar themes and ideas and in very unique and different ways. Key ideas such as the theme of 'the American Dream', narration, symbolism and characterization are expressed in both "The Great Gatsby and "Citizen Kane." The differences in the essential ideas although moderate are very distinct. “The Great Gatsby" and "Citizen Kane" both introduce the theme of the American Dream. In the case of "The Great Gatsby" the American Dream involves a slowly uncovered case of corruption. The American Dream of which Scott .F. Fitzgerald personifies relates to dreams of freedom, hope and following one's goals. Fitzgerald uses the American dream through the tension between two definitions of what exactly the American Dream is. One belief is that of hope, limitless possibilities and reaching human potential. This is where Nick Carraways view of Gatsby as a "good man" stems from. The second version of the American Dream is one that has materialistic values, where one's dream is realized with gaining riches and having a high social potential. It is Gatsby's means of gaining his riches that eludes Carraway
"Citizen Kane" uses the one symbol and implements it as a mysterious key factor, a mystery that is eventually uncovered as the...