Journal #21

Some Like it Hot and The Great Gatsby both focus on society in the 1920s. The theme of both is money and greed. The characters all drink and smoke and it includes flappers, partying, and divorce. Characters are indulging in affairs (Great Gatsby) and men and women are getting divorced multiple different times (Some Like It Hot). In both works it also seems that prohibition comes into discussion. In Some Like It Hot Joe and Jerry are playing at clubs where partying and illegal alcohol is sold and in the Great Gatsby, Gatsby became wealthy through bootlegging. The works also focus on women who fall in love with men because of their wealth. Sugar falls in with Joe because she thought he was a wealthy oil tycoon and Daisy fell for Tom because of his obvious wealth. The biggest different between the two works is that the end of Great Gatsby ends in tragedy and Some Like It Hot is a happy comical ending where the characters do find love.