Similarities Between The Artist And The Great Gatsby

Great artworks are based on real-life events to appeal to its audience while even a tiny connection would remind people of something precious to them in the form of memory or items. Owing to this factor, when we are analyzing the novel, The Great Gatsby and the movie, The Artist, there is no reason not to dig deeper into its setting and see how it makes these two works differ from each other while sharing some sameness. In the first place, both of them happen during the 1920s, also known as the roaring twenties, with The Artist occurs from 1927 to 1932 whereas The Great Gatsby is focused on that decade. After World War I, American soldiers as well as officials both return home and start to focus on boosting their economy back to its original state through a …show more content…
Even with the worst setting of George, a best happy ending has being designed and brought to screen by the distinguished director, nevertheless, Fitzgerald turns Gatsby’s story into the greatest tragedy even bestowed on everything humans desire of like wealth, authority and wisdom. Gatsby’s life can be also seen as the collapse of American Dreams where no matter how high he has reached, as long as he has a poor birth and dirty work like smuggling, there is no possibility for him to be accepted into the Upper Class, thus his career is denied. In addition, there is no real love or friendship between Gatsby and others, exclude Nick. When Gatsby’s death is tangled with scandals and criticisms, nobody comes for his funeral even his lover Daisy has made up her mind to abandon their past and leave him forever, therefore his pure love and dream are broken. In conclusion, the setting could show a variety of elements of the society from time period to social background of an artwork, but there is no accurate saying for us to predict the ending only based on the