Falls and Rises of Jay Gatsby Having read a genuine masterpiece by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald titled “The Great Gatsby”, I am obliged to state that this great book reminds me of another, not in the least minor, work of Jack London titled “Martin Eden”. They are both about great falls and great rises of a men pursuing happiness; lonely, struggling against Destiny and following their Dream. But what are the falls and rises in these two books that I call great? First of all, I would like to present you the London’s book. The story runs about a 21-year-old sailor who by a sheer coincidence finds himself in an apartment of a wealthy man whose son he had protected from ruffians. In the home, he is enthralled by the college-age daughter, Ruth Morse, having never encountered such a vision of feminine purity before. Spurred by his growing affection, Martin determines to live by his brain rather than his back: he will be an author. He gets to reading loads of books in public libraries, educates himself, gives up sailing and starts writing stories and sends them to different magazines to be published. But he is ignored by the publishers and is forced to live from hand to mouth. But he is inspired , enchanted by the purity, brightness of Ruth, thinks her ideal. In order to enable himself to match on her, he must upward crawl diligently. The more books he reads, the less attractive his own circle seems to him – the circle of working people, people of routine, people without ambitions. But gradually his erudition and natural brightness facilitate to his intellectual growth. He has not only caught up with Ruth, but gone far further than her in both intellectual and moral development. And eventually it comes to him that she is a shallow person, her ‘intelligence” is conditioned by her social position, her education is just an accessory of the upper