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A 3 page paper which examines the characters of Gatsby from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. No additional sources cited.
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are individuals who develop in many intriguing ways and characters who clearly stand out. The two characters under examination are Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights.
The following paper examines the two. Gatsby and Heathcliff Which character is more "self-invented" Gatsby or Heathcliff? Both of these men
were something different in their earlier years. In Gatsbys case the reader is only given past references to who Gatsby used to be while in the case of Heathcliff the
reader follows his transition from early childhood to truly self-invented. But, in both cases the men became self-invented for a woman and both because of economic/social position. In both cases
the men felt they needed to reinvent themselves because they were poor and of a lower social class than the woman they wanted.
Many may argue that Heathcliff was the most reinvented character for he came from utter poverty and the position of being an orphan and abused to the position of
wealth and power. But, in his character there is still the darkness, the anger, and the primitive creature that was always Heathcliff. In the case of Gatsby he became a
far more refined individual, even if he still slung to some of his impoverished perspectives. For example, he shows his need to show off his wealth at one point in
the form of his shirts. "shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, with monograms of Indian blue" (Fitzgerald 74). While he
does all this for Daisy, he is really a man who has become more refined and mature whereas Heathcliff has simply become rich. As such it is Gatsby who changed
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