What is one difference and similarity of Daisy from the Great Gatsby and Didi from Jake, Reinvented ? How are this characters similar and different?

Jake, Reinvented written by Gordon Korman is based on Scott Fitzgerald’s famous novel The Great Gatsby. Korman even dedicates his work “For Jay and Daisy”. Both works of fiction reveal the theme of the contemporary American society, its dreams, values and principles. The characters of both novels are similar: in Jake, Reinvented Jay is replaced by Jake, Daisy by Didi, Rick by Nick and Tom by Todd. The names even sound similar. The main characters play have similar social roles despite the fact that in Fitzgerald’s novel the action takes place in Long Island in 20s years of the 20th century and in Jake, Reinvented we get acquainted with school life at   Scott Fitzgerald’s High School.

The plot of both places is very similar. In The Great Gatsby Nick Garraway, the narrator and Daisy’s cousin arrives toLong Island that is the district of rich people and penetrates into the life of the American society of the 1920s. He gets acquainted with his neighbor Gatsby, who is very rich and successful. It appears that he has loved Daisy for many years.

In Jake, Reinvented the main difference is the fact that the action takes place at school among teenagers. Rick is the narrator of this story. Jake Garrett is a new person at school.

Jake, Reinvented is a novel about American high school dream to become the most popular student and to have the most beautiful and most popular girl as a girlfriend. It is interesting that this popularity can be gained not due to good marks, hard-work and some talents. It depends on active way of life and wealth. In The Great Gatsby the author also shows how the concept of American individualism and dream changed in the 1920s. Rich people on the East Coast have poor and empty souls. They care only for money. American dream is a constant rush for wealth for them. They are deprived of any moral values or life principles. They use all methods to achieve their goal – to become rich – and even the feeling of love is defiled.