Herland vs. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charlotte Perkins Gilman with their novels, The Great Gatsby and Herland respectively, bring utopian and dystopian societies to the table. The Great Gatsby, a story of the “American dream,” shows us a society in which pleasure is the motivation for succeeding. On the other hand, Herland lets the reader see a society based upon succeeding through helping to better society as a whole. The two societies …showed first 75 words of 927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 927 total…Gilman p. 59).” Most societies as a whole resemble that of the society in The Great Gatsby. A society in modern times could not be based solely on that of Utopianism. Although the world would be a better place if it were a Utopia, it could never happen because “Man is innately evil” as explained in the novel, Lord of the Flies. All in all, Gilman’s, love all, society proves to triumph over Gatsby’s.