The next comparison of The Great Gatsby and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air is the main character’s love interests. With Will Smith, we see the character’s love interest show up later in the show’s timeline, known as Lisa Wilkes. Lisa shows up in Season 5 where she becomes the first woman who can tame Will’s player ways and turn him into an honest and loyal man. The Great Gatsby’s comparison is Daisy Buchannon, Gatsby’s love interest. Gatsby desires to relight the flame that he and Daisy once had before he went off to war.
How could these two characters’ situations be similar? Well when you look at both of these characters they’re obviously the main love interests, but even more so the runaway lovers of these characters. Will Smith runs off to Las Vegas to marry Lisa Wilkes, although it falls through, and Gatsby and Daisy fall in love before he goes off to the war. Both of these love interests have a first great spark, but then through time have a fall that leads into a kind of silence. Obviously, Gatsby’s relationship fades because he goes off to war, but Will’s fades because of lack of trust in Lisa which even expands to not knowing if Lisa’s name is actually Lisa. Daisy and Lisa both have second chances at the love life, but both are ruined. Gatsby’s was ruined by tragedy and death, but Will and Lisa tried a second time and they have Will’s mother and Lisa’s father go out to dinner together and end up deciding they want to get married making Will and Lisa step-brother and step-sister and keeping them from trying to get married a second time.