Analyze the different themes addressed in the books “The Motorcycle Diaries”, written by Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, and “The Great Gatsby”, written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald it is possible to find some topics in common, such as the social inequity represented in both books. Although this social inequality is stronger and clearer in “The Motorcycle Diaries”, it is also somehow represented in “The Great Gatsby” due to a marked stratification of the people portrayed in the plot of this story. In the following lines we will analyze the way in which this social inequality is represented in such different books. On the one hand, in Ernesto Guevara's diary social injustice is easily detected, and represented in a rather moving way, both through some key episodes that were responsible for Ernesto's new understanding of the world, and in Ernesto's words when he tells his reflections on these episodes. Firstly, when Ernesto went to visit the elderly patient from Valparaiso, who suffered from asthma and heart problems, it is a situation that gives a clear vision of the poor reality that some people had to face every day because they did not even have the conditions minimal. survive with dignity and, beyond that, people's sadness turned into a nuisance for the family just because they were sick. Secondly, Ernesto's meeting with the couple of communist workers oppressed by their political ideas in Baquedano, who did not have a single blanket to protect themselves from the freezing cold of the night in the desert, allows us to see, as Ernesto writes, the representation of the world's proletariat. Furthermore, this couple showed him the ruthless reality of many people in Chile who were persecuted, tortured and made to disappear for their... paper business... and to change their economic situation. Nonetheless, this was not possible because, as she and Jay Gatsby sadly discovered, no one will be accepted into such a select group, "old money" people are not a group you can buy a membership from, no matter how much money you have now. , or what contacts you have. In summary, both in “The Motorcycle Diaries”, which can be considered the starting point that inspired Ernesto's future political battle, and in “The Great Gatsby”, probably the way in which Fitzgerald expresses his deception of seeing the “dream American” completely corrupt and the loss of all moral values, it is possible to find social inequality represented somehow through specific events, or by the way people are classified into different groups, depending on their economic and social status. conditions and presented to the reader.