Gatsby nostro contemporaneo

Gatsby Our Contemporary Showy, rich, and likely to invent self-aggrandizing tales, Jay Gatsby and Donald J. Trump have certainly much in common. In this essay, after reviewing how they similarly resorted to "the little Montenegro" to successfully captivate their audiences with bombastic news, I focus instead on their differences. My point is that money and social standing make Trump more similar to the likes of Tom Buchanan, a duplicitous and arrogant man who, because of the privileges that his class can afford him, cannot conceive of being laughed at by a parvenue and pathetic imitator like Gatsby, and behaves accordingly. My paper ends with a reading of narrator Nick Carraway, another socially advantaged man who, notwithstanding his self-proclaimed honesty, I consider a treacherous liar and Tom Buchanan's fellow conspirator.