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6 pages in length. The writer discusses how the power of love represents a critical theme within the two books. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Great Gatsby and Michael Ondaatjes The English Patient are similar in some respects yet as far apart as can be on others. Truly, such a vast comparison is a
dichotomy of its own inventiveness. The most provocative of all the characters in the two compelling works of literature is that of The Great Gatsbys Daisy Buchanan -- the
materialistic, selfish, party-loving woman who puts a price on everything in her life, including men. Her penchant for everything large accounts for her love affairs, as well, one of
which ultimately cost her the devotion of a man who had given up his whole life for her: Jay Gatsby. However, Gatsby is not the sexual dynamo Daisy prefers,
inasmuch as he does not come with a lot of money - an element she so readily equates with the power of love. It is the intoxicating combination of
wealth and power that equals a sexy man in Daisys narrow world. Ondaatjes novel, however, presents a decidedly different, more intense look into
the sexual orientation of its characters as it relates to the power of love, particularly that of the heroine, Hana. Dangerous and magical with regard to the depths of
her womanhood, she is one who lives at the mercy of her desires. Not aware -- or at least not caring -- about the havoc she wreaks with her
flippant ways, Hana appears to spare no ones heart when she is on a carnal mission. Such power in the hands of one overzealous woman is enough to bring
any man to his knees; this is a power that Hana knows she possesses and utilizes to its fullest. The male characters in
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