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Comparing The Great Gatsby And Charles Foster Kane

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In The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is many things. He is a yachtsman, a soldier in World War 1, an entrepreneur, and bootlegged alcohol in America. Both of these characters are very similar. They both are very rich and successful business men, even though they both seem to live unfilled lives. They also think that they always have to be in control over everything, and end up abusing their power because they think that they are above the law. These two characters also have some differences, one of them being that they both want to be loved, and that they both handle it very differently. Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane are similar because they are rich and lived an unfilled

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