How Is Daisy Portrayed In The Great Gatsby

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I believe the writer F. Scott Fitzgerland would enjoy Baz Durham's twist of the novel, The Great Gatsby. Although, there are many symbols that are portrayed differently in the film, I think that some of the various representations of these symbols would be respected. Such symbols that the director adds or modifys are the colors that are associated with Daisy. The colors that Daisy is corelated with in the book is always yellow. Similarly, gold resembles wealth and old money (west egg) where Daisy lives, however, yellow can be seen as fake gold. Acting fake corresponds to Daisy's personality toward Gatsby and how she tries to juggle her past love, Jay... and her somewhat current, Tom. She does not act herself, which makes her not gold and more …show more content…

From the first scene with the white curtains and dropping of pearls, to her white dress while always being surrounded by flowers really alludes to purity. Lurhman creates this innocence that Gatsby sees, yet what is purposesly ironic is how she is not what she tends to express. Daisy's constant changing of decions on whether to be with Tom or Gatsby, shows her true colors which are far from white, she is truly an uncaring indiviudal who takes Jay's love for granted. Being called, "the golden girl" in the text, it is also irony with Fizgerald. The second symbol is the clock that Gatsby leans on. Fitzgerald uses this leaning on clock gesture to exemplify how Gatsby uses time as a crutch to get back Daisy's love. Jay with a lot of nerves says, "I am sorry about the clock" (Chapter 5). The difference with movie and text is that the clock is already broken in the novel, this helps how the time that he never gives up on Daisy will soon run out. Another symbol that differs, is the books in Gatsby's library. In the text, owl eyes opens up the books to show Jordyn and Nick how dusty and unopened they are. Owl eyes states in the book, "It's a bona-fide piece of printed

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