For decades, students around America have studied Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in search of a higher understanding of not only socioeconomic concerns of each novel’s respected eras, but also the complex use of satire, narrative form, and irony. While both novels are set years apart, many of the themes and uses of literary elements are very similar. These similar themes show that a common thread of desire has always run through America and its people.
Both Great Gatsby and Huckleberry Finn are told through first person. However, with Fitzgerald’s novel, the first person narrative is modified and the narrator’s consciousness filters the plot’s events. While not an original idea as a similar narrative
