Compare And Contrast The Great Gatsby

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Caleb Chadwell Professor Richey American Literature II 7 April 2018 The Great Gatsby: Film vs Novel Essay The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Highlighting the similarities and differences between the 2013 movie and the 1925 novel helps the viewer grasp details provided by both the author and producer. Each piece of work can be attributed with a great deal of interest to the audience based on their own personal preferences and unique points of view. Overall, the plot of the novel and the movie are similar, but the subtle differences in some of the most significant scenes of the movie, paint a different picture. Next, we will be looking at a few similarities between the novel and the movie. One example is the aggressive …show more content…

For example, the party scenes in the movie were given a throwback twist of today’s time period mixed with the 1920’s. Some of the music was uncharacteristic of the Roaring Twenties. You can almost hear the orchestra in the book and they are playing jazz, not the rap sounds that I heard in the movie. Nicks and Jordan’s relationship is much closer in the book than in the movie. In the novel, Daisy behaves like a loving, doting mother while introducing her daughter to Gatsby and then quickly sends her off and away her nanny. That event provided some foreshadowing as to Daisy’s true heart. Daisy seems to be innocent and perhaps even a victim in the movie until she drives over myrtle. Another difference was in Gatsby’s death. In the novel, Gatsby is floating on a pool mattress after being shot by Wilson. Contrasting this action, in the movie Gatsby is climbing out of the pool after hearing his phone ring thinking it was Daisy calling. These different versions of Gatsby’s death provide the viewer an altered image in the movie compared to the novel. Obviously, both versions of the story are very intriguing to the viewer. I much prefer the novel over the film. Fitzgerald did an amazing job with symbolism and character development in the novel that seemed shallow in the movie. Whether a person had old money or new money, it could not buy happiness in the book or the movie. Everyone involved,

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