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 ... important, intelligent and superior, and he considers himself one of them. By being racist, it becomes evident that Tom is an undesirable and not a sympathetic character. Stradlater considers him a handso...

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Tom Buchanan vs. Stradlater 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, ... , intelligent and superior, and he considers himself one of them. By being racist, it becomes evident that Tom is an undesirable and not a sympathetic character. Stradlater considers him a han...

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... . In the novels of the above mentioned writers, their protagonist have been destroyed by either the cruelty of the world around them or their own inability to realize the falseness of the dream which they hoped to attain. In the poems of T.S. Eliot he describes a world in which all hopes and ambitions are lost. He paints a picture that shows this life as a wasteland for the soul. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, incorporates several nihilistic aspects. In the novel the principle ... character, Holden Caulfeild embarks on what is to become a four-day odessy through New York City. B...

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