Great Gatsby vs Easy Rider
Men in both the novel “The Great Gatsby” and in the movie “Easy Rider” show you in many ways how they can relate to the phrase “the American dream”. ... In The Great Gatsby, the American dream was originally about discovery, individualism, and the pursuit of happiness. In the 1920s easy money and relaxed social values have corrupted this dream. In Easy Rider they go from rags to riches well on a quest to get to the Mardi gras. ... Gatsby and Wyatt are both on a quest. ... The Great Gatsby is an extremely symbolic meditation on 1920s America as a whole, in particular the breakdown of the American dream in an era of exceptional wealth and material excess. In Easy Rider they went looking for the American dream which they thought in the beginning was sex, money and drugs but in the end when they had it Wyatt wanted a different American dream. ... Billy shows his obsession for girls when he is with numerous girls throughout Easy Rider. ... When Tom finds becomes suspicious about Daisy and Gatsby he becomes outraged and forces a confrontation and the quest slowly comes ton an end. Wyatt and Gatsby are both the lead characters that are both on a quest. Gatsby and Wyatt had come from poor backgrounds but both did dirty things to get money.