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=Question One:=

The main way that would be of a comparison of the two characters lives would be how they both achieved what they are now. Trimalchio has a parallel life with Gatsby in going from a somebody from a nobody. Trimalchio was a freed slave who made his own future with his desire of striving in society, and Gatsby made his way with money in wrong ways, “He and Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug-stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter,"(pg.133) but he is what he is now. They both throw giant parties that anyone who is anyone goes to it even without an invitation. The parties in both stories were to give people something to do, Trimalchio giving the new rich something to talk about and Gatsby having a place for all the famous people to socialize. Trimalchio was known as a great party thrower, which compares to Gatsby throwing parties every weekend and all of a sudden the social gathering disappeared. In both Trimalchio and Gatsby's party's, they never were present with the rest of the people, "The first course was served and it was good, for all were close up at the table, save Trimalchio, for whom, after a new fashion, the place of honor was reserved." Trimalchio was really displayed how he felt his riches made him for the public to see, and Gatsby threw these parties so that everyone would know him as, "'Great Gatsby' so as to impress the woman he had once lost"(ch.5 site).


 * "It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it had begun, his career as Trimalchio was over//."// Fitzgerald refers to Trimalchio in his party throwing ways and as well tieing it in with other characters as Pompey, building up his rankings in society to accomplich something and Maecenas as well working with
 * "The surviving text, a mixture of prose and poetry, details the misadventures of the narrator, Encolpius, and his lover, a handsome sixteen year old boy named Giton. Throughout the novel, Encolpius has a hard time keeping his lover faithful to him as he is constantly being enticed away by others. Encolpius' friend Ascyltus (who seems to have previously been in a relationship with Encolpius) is another major character but he disappears from the narrative half way through the surviving text. It is a rare example of a Roman novel (and the only one of its kind to be satirical which was usually poetry), the only other surviving example (quite different in style and plot) being //Metamorphoses// written by [|Lucius Apuleius]. It can not be used as evidence for the reconstruction of what everyday life must have been like in Rome any more than [|Fawlty Towers] can tell us about the real management of a beachside hotel because it is primarily a comedy, and a farcical [|satire] at that."

If you have any questions you can reference the actual work, __The Satyricon__, here...

[|The Satyricon] Chapter 7