Stradlater vs. Tom
The two novels, The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye, have two characters who are very similar but at the same time, different from each other. Tom Buchanan can be considered one of the antagonists in The Great Gatsby, and can be compared to the character of Stradlater from The Catcher in the Rye. Tom is sort of a grown-up Stradlater and by knowing each one of them, we can learn a lot. Their relation makes one of The Great Gatsby’s themes extremely evident, which is the falsity and hollowness of the wealthy class in the 1920’s. Based on their similarities, we can conclude that when Tom was younger, he was a sort of a Stradlater, and he only grew up to be a worse man, who is only interested in money and appearance. Even though these novels were written in different decades, the 20’s and 50’s are still similar for the importance of people always wanting to look good and superior no matter what their age is. Tom Buchanan is a wealthy man of the 1920’s. His wealth is certainly his power to think that he is superior to others. Tom believes that a man’s life is about having a rich wife and an excellent status in society. He is an uptown guy married to Daisy, who is also an uptown woman. He is capable of going over p
Even though he always looks so clean, Stradlater is actually very disgusting in the inside and with his personal habits. He is known as a “secret slob” because of his nasty personal habits: (17; ch. 1). Stradlater, from the Catcher in the Rye, and Tom Buchanan, one of the antagonists in The Great Gatsby, have a lot in common, and their personality makes The Great Gatsby’s theme extremely obvious. Tom is sort of a grown-up Stradlater, and both of them are only interested in their futile world. Their frivolous and egocentric surroundings are only made up of their fantasies and desires to always be the best of all the people surrounding them.
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Jane Stradlater,
Tom Stradlater,
Myrtle Daisy,
Empires’ GoddardWell,
Tom Buchanan,
Tom Gatsby,
Rye Tom,
Holden Ackley’s,
Gatsby Tom,
Myrtle Wilson,
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ch 6,
makes gatsby’s,
grown-up stradlater,
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tom sort,
newly rich,
tom buchanan,
catcher rye,
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newly rich people,
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