Jake Barnes and Nick Carraway are two similar characters conjured up during the roaring twenties. They represent the jazz era and everything that happened during that time period. Their actions mirror each other very closely at times. Nick and Jake show different aspects of life in the 1920s. One similar aspect between Jake and Nick is that both these men participated in World War I. In the war, both Jake and Nick began to construct insecurities about themselves. They began to question their manhood, Jake to a greater degree than Nick. Jake is especially perplexed about his manhood because he ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , beautiful, irresponsible, spoiled lady, who has shift to a self-fashioning female and is completely dependable on men. The men around her compete with each other to seduce women with their continuously increasing fortune. The novel leaves a disappointing impression because of the behavior of the vague characters who have lost touch with any sort of morality, but through their behavior and thoughts we can define ... by their men, but all of them are fortunate to have control over their own destinies regardless of the decisions that they make. The new generation of women began to focus mo...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate