Comparing Fitzgeralds Great Gatsby and Eliots The Love Song of J. Alf

The Great Gatsby and Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock   So often, it seems, career can seem like a patient etherized on the put back (Eliot, 3). Be it the apparent futility of existence as a whole, or the hazard of those single mo handsts of doubt liveness is often evanescent. I believe life is best described as a fickle beast, always insidious always turning down some new and unexpected road. This fleeting life is what both Jay Gatsby of  The Great Gatsby and Alfred J. Prufrock of Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock experience. These two men experiences move down remarkably similar paths as they quest for jockey and life. Yet separately has sealed their shared fate in a different manner. As they head toward the seeming abyss of death, both overdue on all they wish they had done during their lives. By the time each man meets his end they both feel they have failed themselves and life as a whole.   While sporting similar fates, Prufrock and Gatsby, boast a seemingly opposed beginning. Prufrock is best describe in his love song as a passenger on the road of life. He speaks of his...