The birth of modern day literature paves a new road in which assessing its classical counterpart is made significantly easier. The themes presented in many contemporary pieces shed light on the themes engraved in the text of several classics. Because these contemporary works are often set in present day, they help make the older novels more applicable. In the instance of The Great Gatsby and The Wolf of Wall Street, authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jordan Belfort provide insight into the intoxicating, yet inadequate upper class lifestyle. Both works do so by delving into the themes of materialism and a Jezebel lifestyle.
Both Gatsby and Belfort embody the swagger that tags along with being a multimillionaire. However, Gatsby is the living contrast …show more content…
Both authors do a phenomenal job at providing a peek into the high roller habitual cycle. A materialistic way of life is almost expected when one is extremely wealthy. This statement is supported through the writings of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jordan Belfort. One of the main characters in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, spent a year in France and drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together” (Fitzgerald 8). Tom had everything he could have ever wanted: a wife, all the money in the world, yet it still was not enough. He embodied a sense of cockiness that drove his desires and compelled him to yearn for more and more. The common theme of both pieces of literature is that more is never enough. Belfort is the present day epitome of excess. Nothing he ever did satisfied him. He had a gorgeous wife, an immensely successful business, and a healthy daughter. The average man would be content with his current situation, but Belfort was no average man. Belfort was a man that took pills like they were candy, sank his 170 foot yacht, and crashed his personal jet. A man that strayed outside the confines of marriage because he just could not get enough. Nothing ever satisfied the young entrepreneur. The Wolf testifies in his autobiography that his life had become “all about excess: about crossing over forbidden lines, about doing things you thought
Both Gatsby and Belfort embody the swagger that tags along with being a multimillionaire. However, Gatsby is the living contrast …show more content…
Both authors do a phenomenal job at providing a peek into the high roller habitual cycle. A materialistic way of life is almost expected when one is extremely wealthy. This statement is supported through the writings of both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jordan Belfort. One of the main characters in The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan, spent a year in France and drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together” (Fitzgerald 8). Tom had everything he could have ever wanted: a wife, all the money in the world, yet it still was not enough. He embodied a sense of cockiness that drove his desires and compelled him to yearn for more and more. The common theme of both pieces of literature is that more is never enough. Belfort is the present day epitome of excess. Nothing he ever did satisfied him. He had a gorgeous wife, an immensely successful business, and a healthy daughter. The average man would be content with his current situation, but Belfort was no average man. Belfort was a man that took pills like they were candy, sank his 170 foot yacht, and crashed his personal jet. A man that strayed outside the confines of marriage because he just could not get enough. Nothing ever satisfied the young entrepreneur. The Wolf testifies in his autobiography that his life had become “all about excess: about crossing over forbidden lines, about doing things you thought