They’re not that different
Our society has always been divided by nothing but pieces of paper, copper, nickel and zinc. Money has always determined what kind of life we have. It determines the privilege and the limits that we can have. It also determines the treatment people give you and see you as a member of society. Nowadays, society is more open to people of low income. The government helps them and gives them an opportunity to prove themselves worthy. An opportunity to become someone great no matter their race, gender or religion. However, it wasn’t always like this. In the 1920s when the white were first than anyone, when women belonged to the household and when any other skin color was limited to slavery and camp work, only few were…show more content… In both stories there is infidelity and unhappiness. In both stories there is conflict in between families. In both stories there is murder. The Great Gatsby show how a “perfect” marriage is everything but perfect. Even though Tom and Daisy are not happy with each other due to the fact that Daisy know that tom has an affair, they still are together.Myrtle, Tom’s mistress, has a lot in common with him. She can’t stand her husband either. “ What I say is, why go on living with them if they can’t stand them? If I was them I’d get a divorce and get married to each other right away.” Tom would never leave Daisy for Myrtle. Why? Because she is not reach. When you are rich, you stick with the rich. It doesn’t matter if you are madly in love, if they are not wealthy, it’s impossible. In Sula, Eva Peace had her first and last husband. Unlike Tom, people from the Bottom, like Eva, were not bond to each other. “After five years of a sad and disgruntled marriage BoyBoy took off. During the time they were together he was very much preoccupied with the other women and not home much.” As her husband did, if anyone feel like it they could just go away from their relationship, even if they were not divorce and escape from any family responsibility(children), they were free to do it. It was the advantage of being the outcast of society; it was the advantage of being black, nobody…show more content… When you are rich, there will always be nosy people, trying to get into your life and know more about it than even yourself. Gatsby was one of the richest man on Long Island, who threw parties every weekend to attract the attention of the one he loved. But even though his objective was one oblivious person, others were just as curious as a child on christmas morning. “Gatsby’s notoriety, spread about by the hundred who had accepted his hospitality and so became authorities upon his past, had increased all summer until it fell just short of being news.” Gatsby was always in the news trying to attract attention to get to the person he loved. Once completed this objective, he didn’t want anymore media surrounding his life. This attracted unwanted attention, which contributed to drama of the story. Upons Gatsby’s death, there is dozens of reporters coming in and out Jay’s house, getting the complete new of who was the murderer and the mystery of why he decided to killed the greatest host ever to lived on Long Beach. Meanwhile, on the Bottom, Ohio, Eva Peace decide that it was time for her immature son to die. After setting him on fire, her daughter , Hannah, came running into Eva’s room saying erratically that Plum was on fire. “Eva looked into Hannah’s eyes. ‘Is? My baby? Burning?’ The two women did not speak, for the eyes of each were enough for the other.” Hannah knew that her
