Similarity Essay Jay Gatsby and Pechorin are two very different characters that take place in two different time periods but show many similarities. Superfluous men are set apart by their superior talents by being excessive in societies, unnecessary and cause more trouble than they are worth, and are in corrupted societies. This is a big quality that two different characters share. In The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald and A Hero of Our Time …showed first 75 words of 798 total…

…showed last 75 words of 798 total…in their own society. They both show similarities of being superfluous men by developing talents for war but not life without warm, not having a place in society to be appreciated, and the corruptions in both societies in the two different time periods. Perhaps neither character would have turned out so badly if their society could have developed other characteristics and had not left Gatsby and Pechorin with so much free time to do wrong.