Rules of Civility and the Great Gatsby Essay Example

draw parallels between the central characters.

Tinker Grey, a later version of Jay Gatsby, describe an ascent to high society but immortalizes a fall from civility. Both characters enthrall a magnetism difficult to forbear and secrete their own realities, masking their true selves to those around them. Similar to the narrators, Gatsby and Grey also both came from humble beginnings. Gatsby came from an impoverished farm family while Tinker may have grew up in a wealthy family, but his father lost all their money, forcing him to start over with nothing.

Gatsby and Grey both gained their fortune from immoral circumstances. While Gatsby acquired his wealth through bootlegging, let us just say Tinker was thrusted into high society as a male version of a mistress.Fitzgerald and Towels both use the technique of delayed character revelation. Gatsby created his identity, reinvented himself, and changed his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby to match his new persona, similar to how Teddy changed to Tinker.

Tinker hides his true identity behind a façade, deceiving those around him. Both characters are molded to be alluring and favored by the reader but as the mystery fades, the truth prevails. Rules of Civility is a novel worth standing on its own as an enjoyable quick read but is incomparable to the quality of Fitzgerlads classic novel, The Great Gatsby. It may be unfair to compare these two works for what they are, but as I was reading it was impossible to not draw connections between the storylines and leading characters.