Differences Between The Great Gatsby Movie And Movie

In the book The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway the narrator of the story describes vivid scenes of Jay Gatsby’s parties. Many of the descriptions of the parties are very similar to the descriptions in the movie. For example, Nick mentions that there is an orchestra that arrives at seven o’clock (Fitzgerald 40). I think the movie very well portrays the orchestra at the parties. It is described as, “ no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums (Fitzgerald 40). I do not think that the songs the orchestra played in the movie match the description of the songs in the book. In the book, Nick mentions the orchestra plays, “yellow cocktail music” (Fitzgerald

In the book, The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is portrayed a careful and thoughtful mannered man, for example Daisy calls Nick an “absolute rose” (Fitzgerald 14). In the beginning of the movie, Nick is seeing a psychiatrist, which to me seems out of character, but overall his description in the movie matches quite well with him acting almost like a wallflower. Jordan Baker is portrayed quite well in the film. She is very self-centered in the story and in the film. Although, the film does leave out the romance between Nick and Jordan, they’re feelings were not as boisterous as in the story. In the film, the audience also does not get to know how dishonest she really is compared to the

Tom mentions, “Doesn’t he know she doesn’t want him? (Fitzgerald 103).” Tom may not be the most loyal man to his wife, but he is right about one thing. Daisy may have lover Gatsby at one point in time, but Tom knows she cannot live without Tom, which shows how much time and effort Gatsby wasted on a girl who has started a new life without him. The film shows a great representation of how much Gatsby really spends to get Daisy’s attention, which in the end he doesn’t even get. Instead, her and Tom flee the city to avoid the