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Plot of GREAT GATSBY similar to WUTHERING HEIGHTS?
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greg lee
Apr 22, 2013, 4:18:11 AM4/22/13
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Am I the only one who has noticed similarities?
greg lee
Apr 29, 2013, 7:11:45 AM4/29/13
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On Apr 21, 10:18 pm, greg lee <music031...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am I the only one who has noticed similarities?
In both novels, doesn't a girl reject a poor boy for a rich boy?
> Am I the only one who has noticed similarities?
And doesn't the poor b. go away, make his fortune, and return to try
to recapture girl who had rejected him?
greg lee
May 13, 2013, 5:26:50 AM5/13/13
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- Did Scott Fitgerald use Wuthering Heights as a basis for his The
Great Gatsby? Fitzgerald was well up on English literature and he
almost certainly came into contact with Emily Bronte's novel.
The storyline is remarkably similar as both Heathcliffe and Gatsby are
poor and are forced by circumstances beyond their control to leave the
great love of their lives. They both return some years later having
become self-made men only to find that in their absence their lovers
have married someone else.
At that point the storylines diverge but the totally obsessive love
that they feel for the heroines is the raison d'etre of both books.
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