... 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 ... nose, which cle...

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... 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 ... nose, which cle...

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... that life and traditional values are both futile and useless. It focuses on the more grim side of life and the futility of the human condition. Such themes can be seen in some of the most notable literary works of the twentieth century. Although never claiming to be nihilists, such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald, J.D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, and poet T.S. Eliot infused elements of this philosophy into ... their writings. In each of their most famous novels and poems, some aspect of Nihilism can be found. In the ... them as being " phony ", a characteristic that he detests. What he fa...

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