Bright Lights, Big City and The Great Gatsby are two completely different books, yet they share some very distinguished similarities. Both books present stories narrated by the protagonist or main character. Bright Lights, Big City takes place during the 1980’s while The Great Gatsby takes place during the 1920’s. These time periods have great impact on the differences between the two books, but the ways in which the main characters tell their stories, brings them …showed first 75 words of 344 total…

…showed last 75 words of 344 total…seems to enjoy them and be an important factor to them, but in fact he is very separated from them. Jamie tells his story as an insider looking out. In The Great Gatsby, Nick only tells us about what he can see going on in Gatsby’s parties, since he has no inner connections, and because he is not physically at the parties. Therefor he tells his story as and outsider looking in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**