Jounal #21

Some Like It Hot and The Great Gatsby are similar in the fact that they both deal with the poeple of high society.  both of their themes have to do with wealth and greed. Both works describe people who like to live large and exquisitely with thier money and who et married and divorced nurmerous times. In both works, girls are attracted to weathy men, as sugar fell in love wih joe because she hought he was rich and Daisy fell in love with Tom because of his wealth. Also, the topic of illegal alcohol and the prohibition are mentioned in both books, as Gatsby was a bootlegger and the gangsters in Some like it Hot were selling liquor. They are both in the 1920's era, with flappers, smoking, and parties. Joe and Jerry play instruments for events, while atby holds elaborate parties that get out of hand most of the time. All of the characters in the stories appear to be very materialistic, as they only worry about the most unimportant things in life, money and material things. Tom is like asgood because of being born into wealth, while the gangsters in both stories, Gatsby and Spats, are killed. With these challenges, they still try to find love in both works. This leads to the main difference between the two works; In Some Like it Hot, both characters find love, but in Gatsby, they lose love is mostly all cases.