There is a numerous amount of similarities between F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Both authors write about the real world and how real people behave under certain circumstances. For this reason there are many similarities between the two novels. There was a vast variety of similarities ranging from themes, symbols, and common persona between the characters in both stories. For example both stories contained a …showed first 75 words of 1207 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1207 total…and The Great Gatsby that there were many similarities between the two. And the idea of "phonies" was evident in numerous places in both books. It was a very popular topic in both novels and that is the reason it was chosen as the topic of this paper. Both authors used the concept of a "phony" to help illustrate the way many people act when trying to fit in and when placed under other circumstances.