Suspenseful books make great movies that provide dramatic effects as the story plays out. In ‘The Great Gatsby”, Scott Fitzgerald portrays this story in an unusual way to produce a more realistic effect on the reader. Additionally, Fitzgerald includes a great deal of detail while describing characters and events, further adding to the realistic effect. The Great Gatsby is a better option than Frankenstien because it includes strong word choice and dramatic approaches to events. ‘The Great Gatsby’ would be the better movie adaptation to watch because of the word choice Scott Fitzgerald integrates throughout the book. Words such as “vehemently” and phrases including “once a fortnight” encourage the reader to use context clues in order to find out what the author was trying to say and the purpose of their word choice. A more specific example of this word choice is prevalent in chapter VIII. While analyzing Gatsby’s love for Daisy, Nick expresses, “... he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, and paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is…” By using this poetic word choice, Nick describes Daisy as a rose, something not inherently beautiful unless people chose to make it so. …show more content…
The parties, the people, and the emotions are all communicated very clearly throughout the whole book. For example, Fitzgerald provides the rumors that people at Gatsby’s house parties had regarding how he became rich, and even about his personal history to the extent that they thought he was in the black market or even a “nazi spy”. Because Gatsby was made to be a more secretive character in the beginning, the mention of rumors plays out with dramatic indicators, which asserts readers to be more focused on understanding Gatsby’s past when it is