Comparing Fitzgeralds Great Gatsby and Eliots The Love Song of J. Alf

The Great Gatsby and Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock   So often, it seems, life cigaret seem like a patient etherized on the table (Eliot, 3). Be it the apparent futility of existence as a whole, or the insecurity of those wholeness moments of doubt life is often fleeting. I believe life is outstrip described as a fickle beast, evermore elusive always turning down some new and unexpected road. This fleeting life is what both Jay Gatsby of  The Great Gatsby and Alfred J. Prufrock of Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock experience. These two men experiences affect down remarkably similar paths as they quest for love and life. still each has sealed their shared fate in a contrasting military personnelner. As they head toward the seeming abyss of death, both remiss on all they wish they had done during their lives. By the time each man meets his end they both feel they have failed themselves and life as a whole.   While sporting similar fates, Prufrock and Gatsby, boast a seemingly contradictory beginning. Prufrock is best describe in his love song as a passenger on the road of life. He speaks of his...