Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby

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Originally Posted by Emil Miller

This point has been raised before but why should there be any reason for him not to be true to his role as narrator? I saw nothing dubious in his telling of the story.

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Narratives are inevitably coloured by who is giving them.

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Originally Posted by kelby_lake

Narratives are inevitably coloured by who is giving them.

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This is true but imputing any particular reason for such action is purely conjecture on the part of the reader.

books. But why compare books, especially Wuthering Heights and Gatsby when they are written so many years apart. I have read the Brontes and all of Scott Fitzgerald's works, both novels and short stories, and I am just glad I have read them and re-read them, not caring about similarities or which was best. A pretty good writer, Ernest Hemingway, thought a lot of Gatsby, although he didn't care much for Fitzgerald's gutteral, scatolological speech, especially when Fitzgerald was drunk.

Gatsby and Tender are hallmarks in American literature, but the more I read posts about these two novels, the more I am convinced that they should not be taught in high school. Not that they are beyond all in this age bracket, but that few, if any, high school teachers have the ability to teach them.

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Originally Posted by dfloyd

books. But why compare books, especially Wuthering Heights and Gatsby when they are written so many years apart. I have read the Brontes and all of Scott Fitzgerald's works, both novels and short stories, and I am just glad I have read them and re-read them, not caring about similarities or which was best. A pretty good writer, Ernest Hemingway, thought a lot of Gatsby, although he didn't care much for Fitzgerald's gutteral, scatolological speech, especially when Fitzgerald was drunk.

Gatsby and Tender are hallmarks in American literature, but the more I read posts about these two novels, the more I am convinced that they should not be taught in high school. Not that they are beyond all in this age bracket, but that few, if any, high school teachers have the ability to teach them.

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Well I am not comparing Gatsby with Heights but only suggesting the possibility that one may have been the progenitor of the other. I don't think a valid comparison could be made if only because, whilst the plot lines may be similar, they concern two entirely different societies.

were very declarative on the side of one novel or the other.