F. Scott Fitzgerald has a tendency to use the same plot with his pieces. With the two pieces "The Great Gatsby" and "Winter Dreams" it is shown.
Both main characters, coming from little to no money, share a common dream of wanting wealth and fortune as well as a high society leading lady. Both ladies are flirtatious and hard to get. They marry someone else and have their child, realizing too late when they see or talk to the main characters again that they could've had a better life. Yet, when the main characters attempt to regain their past love with their ex's, it fails miserably and they end up alone.
Now there are differences to these two stories, obviously, or else they would be the same one. Dexter in "Winter Dreams" isn't involved in an illegal way of making money as Gatsby from "The Great Gatsby" is. Gatsby makes money by illegally selling alcohol during the prohibition era while Dexter owns a laundry service, which he later sells. Also, Dexter's view of his "love" Judy changes when he realizes how much her beauty has deteriorated while Gatsby always finds his "love" Daisy beautiful.
In all, the two pieces are both still very identical, but there are ways in which they differ.
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