Nick Carroway and Jay Gatsby are like an orange and an apple; either being what you want. Oranges and apples have similarities; such as, being a fruit, but have contrasting attributes, like apples are non-citric and oranges are full of citric – that’s why they never go brown. And that is like Nick and Jay. For some comparisons they are both men of ambition. They have moved away and tried to pursue happiness because that’…showed first 75 words of 460 total…

…showed last 75 words of 460 total…of Jordon Baker to go back to the mid-west. He doesn’t get to attached to people as compared to Jay’s infatuation with Daisy… hey maybe J. Gatsby found the person that made him truly happy, but that is what makes life good in the long run…we’re all different in even the slightest way. So those are some of the comparisons and contrasting qualities that I stumbled over while reading this novel.