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Sea-Yun Pius Joung
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For example,
the Victorian manner of writing, under the subgenre of the Gothic novel, to which Charlotte
Bronte conforms to, contrasts greatly with the psychological nature of the modernist novel,
which amply characterizes The Great Gatsby
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Nevertheless, there are similarities in the opening and ending of the novels, especially due to
the point of view taken, which is in the first-person retrospective
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However, because of the need to construct their
novels in conformity with their given genre and literary time, the ending contrasts
substantially, albeit important characters pass away in both conclusions
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Jane Eyre commences in medias res, giving an abrupt beginning to the novel
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Indeed, despite lacking any preamble or back-story, because of
the incident of her cousin abusing her, which occurs on that precise day, her character and
petulance is introduced effectively
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On the other hand, The Great Gatsby has a profoundly telling preamble, which establishes a
simple back-story for the narrator
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However, these qualities of the respective novels also aids in establishing the Point of
View of each narrator
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Nick establishes that his point of view is limited, as a peripheral first-person narrator,
and only chooses to focus on the rich: especially on Gatsby
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Yet,
Jane Eyre contrasts directly on this note, since the narrator merely recounts her narrative in
chronological order
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She sets the
scene and incidents, which occur and hardly ever mentions anything that occurs after the
moment that is portrayed
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She has no need
of this, since she is talking about her own life, unlike Nick Carraway, who merely acts as a
peripheral narrator, recounting and reflecting upon what glimpses he has had of the character,
“who gives his name to this book”
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It is therefore the case that Nick Carraway’s only function is to judge, as the narrator, in
order to guide the construction of each character in the novel
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The narrator is intended to judge each character
psychologically
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However, being focused on herself, Jane Eyre is self-judgmental
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As the narrator, she
has a function to guide the spectrum through which the characters are seen
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Because she is also the narrator, she must
criticize her own environment, and express her imperfections
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In the opening, she describes herself to have “physical
inferiority” to her cousins, for example, adding to this sense of a dysfunction between her as
the protagonist, and her given environment
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In Jane Eyre, her long-lost
cousin, John Rivers passes away rapturously, quoting the Biblical Apocalypse, saying, “Yes, I
am coming quickly, amen, come Lord Jesus”
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The narrator, therefore,
conforms with the conventions of the Victorian novel, through utilizing biblical allusions and
themes to construct her ending
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In contrast, Gatsby passes away by murder, at the hands of Wilson
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It was made evident through the use of Gatsby’s plans from when he was young
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This psychological, modernist novel
displays the dissatisfaction of a death after searching for worldly goods, while the
aforementioned Victorian novel displays the satisfaction that can come from divine sources
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Jane Eyre, seeking to prove the
empowerment of women as vital was written so that the female protagonist was central to
telling her own story, while the attack on American society, which characterizes The Great
Gatsby was written from the perspective of the average American looking into the rich
person’s lives
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In Jane Eyre, the protagonist is the narrator, and
therefore has the dual role of portraying the protagonist, while simultaneously judging her,
and her own environment, while in The Great Gatsby, the first-person narrator has all the
possibility to judge others, due to his peripheral nature in the novel
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Conforming with the Biblical and Victorian
narrative, Jane Eyre portrays a rapturous, spiritual and unblemished death, while The Great
Gatsby, describing materialism does the precise opposite: a murder
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