The Great Gatsby Vs Chicago Analysis

No Matter the Cost During the 1920’s, also known as the Roaring 20’s, America changed significantly in social and political status. With new music, books, and technology money started becoming a huge factor during the time. Life was different for society as a whole as well, the American Dream was no longer based on living a comfortable and happy life with what you have, it was based on who made the most money and how they made that certain amount of money. Living in the 20’s seemed to be a beautiful factor due to the riches and the fame people were receiving for anything they did. However, with the new change happening in America from coast to coast, many people were uncomfortable with all the drastic changes happening all at once. Eventually …show more content…
Roxie, in the film Chicago, hopes to become famous and make it into the world of fame, while the girls in the cell jail want to be free so they can live their hopes and dreams. What’s really interesting is that even though they yearn for different things all of them sort of go through the same route in order to be free and make it in the world. Differently Jay Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby, wants Daisy to love him like he once loved her. Throughout the story Gatsby throws magnificent parties in order to show Daisy, who lives across the lake from him, that he is worth loving and trying to rekindle the past they once had. Hope is described in a very special way in the novel about Gatsby, Nick Carraway, the narrator, describes Gatsby’s smile as, “ It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it... It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.” (Fitzgerald, 53). It portrays Gatsby as a man of truth and hope because he is known as one of the richest men in the world during the time. It brings hope into people’s mind because they believe if he can do it so can they. It happens quite differently in Chicago. Roxie sleeps with a man because she believes that he has the numbers of people in the …show more content…
Gatsby and Daisy later on in the story start having an affair and Gatsby starts to believe Daisy is going to leave Tom, her husband, for him. But as the story progresses Gatsby confides in Nick with something very important about Daisy. Gatsby says that Daisy’s, “...voice is full of money.” (128) It proves to be true because after the big fight between Tom and Gatsby, Daisy runs away with Gatsby and ends up killing Mrytle. After they left, Daisy went home and Tom followed them home. Daisy stays in the comfort of her room with Tom, and they begin talking. Gatsby says, “ I want to wait here until Daisy goes to bed.” Even when Daisy practically decides she’s never going to be with him she is still hopeful that she will return to him. It’s kind of like Amos, Roxie’s husband, when he finds out she cheats for the first time and committed murder he covers up for her so he can go to jail instead of her. He states that, “No, I give myself up. Surrender at my own free will.” (Chicago, Dir. Rob Marshall. Screenplay by Bill Condon. By Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, and John Kander, Perf. Catherine Zeta Jones, Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah. Buena Vista, 2006. DVD) He had no idea of what had happened but he was more than willing to take the blame hoping that his wife wasn’t lying. But unfortunately she was and he found out it was with the furniture salesmen and came clean

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