Differences in Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men

The novels, The Great Gatsby and Of Mice and Men, were very tragic. Both novels had very strong tragic points of sense of life, impulse and tragedy itself. The Great Gatsby, however, was a more tragic story. The novels presented a tragic sense of life throughout the text. Inevitably they were doomed through their own failures, errors, or even the action of the virtues before the tragedy ever occurred. In The Great Gatsby, Mr. Wilson, …

…crazy and everything could have been avoided if Daisy told the truth. Tom?s jealously towards Gatsby gets Gatsby killed. Gatsby, in love with Daisy, is an innocent pawn that gets shot for keeping his mouth shut and Daisy pretended like nothing happened while all of this went on. Both novels represented all of the technical definitions of a tragedy but in the end The Great Gatsby was more tragic and had a heartbreaking ending.