In both The Great Gatsby and Some
Like is Hot, share similarities. Both portray the upper class society
during the 1920’s. In the movie, life of two musicians and how they interact
with the upper class while hiding from 1920’s gangsters is shown. The life of
the rich in the movie mirrors the life that the rich characters in Gatsby
participate in. The party life of the Roaring Twenties is equally represented
in the movie and novel. Both works also share similar themes; greediness and
jealousy. However, the major difference in the two works is in the endings. In Some Like is Hot, the ending is happy with
Sugar and Joe finding love. The Great Gatsby
ends in the opposite fashion, with Gatsby meeting his demise while never being
able to rekindle his former love with Daisy. I think that both works are taking
similar aspects to make a statement about American life, but the movie and
novel are making two different statements about American life. In the novel,
the overall statement is that the greediness and wealth of the upper class of
society leads to misery and death. Fitzgerald takes the life of the American
1920’s to portray the more negative side of it. However in the movie the life of
the 1920’s is shown to be fun and happy with people finding love. The movie portrays
a brighter happier American society
