A Separate Peace And The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

Claire Whittaker Mrs. Bonjour AP English 12 22 February 2016 Resembling Relationships Novels can develop ties despite being written in different times, with very different plots. Such novels deserve the exploration of comparison between them. Both John Knowles and F. Scott Fitzgerald, in the novels A Separate Peace and The Great Gatsby respectively, show relationships between two male characters and detail how a dream can become out of hand. While both authors use extended flashback to start their narration about the past events, Knowles chooses to tell the story from the perspective of Gene who is extremely involved in Finny’s dream, while Fitzgerald uses Nick as a narrator less connected to Gatsby’s dream and fixation. In the first place, Gene Forrester and Finny in A Separate Peace and Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby both share similarly close relationships with one another. 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