Journal #21

Journal 21 - Some Like It Hot and The Great Gatsby Comparison/Contrast

Although Some Like It Hot is a comedy and The Great Gatsby is a tragedy, both works use popular culture to portray life in 1920s America.  Focusing on the following elements (characterization, conflict, and theme), discuss how the two works are similar and different and what each is saying about American life.

           

            Both works have a side conflict of a love triangle. In Great Gatsby, Gatsby is in love with Daisy who is married to Tom. Gatsby wants to get back together with Daisy but it doesn’t look promising. In Some Like it Hot, Joe has to act like a women, Josephine, but is in love with another girl on the train, Sugar. He has a hard time keeping to two separate.

            In characterization, Gatsby is just like Joe, with them both being in love with a girl, and pretending to be someone their not. Jerry is like Nick because he is the sidekick to his friend. Nick is like Gatsby’s sidekick. Sugar is like Daisy, in which she is in love with the man but also like rich men just like Daisy. The characters are all different though, because they have much different intentions. In Some Like it Hot, they are much more humorous characters.

            The theme of both works are similar in which they are running from something, and trying to hide who they really are. In the end, true colors are shown. They are different because Some Like it Hot has a happier ending then the other.