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Compare And Contrast The Great Gatsby

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The book “The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a literary classic. If someone has not read it they have at least heard about it. It is one of those timeless classics that is read even years after its creation. The book was also adapted into a movie with actors like Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan. But like all movie adaptations, it has some differences from the book. Some of the differences are minor and some are major. Three key differences in the movie are Nick and Gastby is first interaction, Myrtle Willson is death, and Gastby is funeral. Although they do not change the main plot they do add or take away important moments for some characters. The first encounter between Nick and Gatsby in the movie is not the …show more content…

…and this man Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation.’ For a moment he looked at me as if he failed to understand. ‘I’m Gatsby,’ he said suddenly.” (Fitzgerald 52) It is a small detail that is not too big and grand it is small and intimate. On the other hand, the first encounter in the movie is more rushed. With the loud music and quick movements. There was no time for a proper conversation between the two and Gatsby revealed himself right away with a big and grand gesture. This of course is because it is a movie so it has to move fast and be grand and loud but it is different from the book …show more content…

Not the funeral itself but the events leading up to it. In the movie, it pushes the thought that Nick is all Gatsby has. That he has no one else. In the funeral scene, it shows that not a single person had shown up and Nick was the only one who cared about him. However, in the book, it is shown that this is not true. While yes there were not many people at the funeral and Daisy did not show up, Nick was not the only one there for his funeral. Gatsby is father shows up for his dead son something that does not happen in the movie. “But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand. ‘I saw it in the Chicago newspaper,’ he said. ‘It was all in the Chicago newspaper. I started right away.’” (Fitzgerald 175) There is also Wolfshime, the man Gatsby worked with/for, he was mentioned once in the movie and they portrayed it as he barely cared about him. But in the book, Wolfshime offered to pay for Gatsby is funeral along with having regrets about not being able to go. “‘Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,’ he suggested. ‘After that my own rule is to let everything alone.’” (Fitzgerald 180) None of these scenes happened in the movie. It only showed Nick grieving Gatsby and being at his funeral, which in the book was not the

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Daniel Aguirre Ms. Tobias English III GT - 6th 12 January 2017 After analyzing both the movie and the novel, I have discovered similarities and differences. Ill try to compare and contrast the two since the movie does not depict the story exactly as how the novel does. Similarities There were still some similarities in the film that tied back to the book. One of the main ones is when Nick walks to Gatsby’s backyard and finds him standing at the edge of his dock reaching out to what was a green light.

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Even though Gatsby did have an affair with Daisy, she was still married to Tom and didn’t want to leave him; “Just tell [Tom] the truth... that you never loved him” (101). Gatsby expected that Daisy would leave, but at heart, Gatsby was something of her past, not a priority, and something she couldn't fully care about. Nick is at Gatsby's funeral, with only one other person to attend who isn’t Daisy: “I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, but he was already too far away, and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower” (Fitzgerald 133). In the ending of the book, when Gatsby dies, Daisy does not care. Gatsby's life was thought to be one that promised wealth, success, and happiness but often led to disillusionment and

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In the movie the characters were portrayed well rather than in the book. The characters made the connection present that each of them had with each other. Gatsby made his love for Daisy present and Nick’s neutral attitude between both sides was the same in the movie compared to the book. In the movie the scene where it shows George Wilson getting the gun with anger towards Gatsby was frustrating to watch because George had all that rage over someone who didn’t even commit the crime to begin with. The scene at Myrtle’s apartment when they were having their “gaudy” party was better in the movie because in the movie the loud red color of her apartment made it look trashy and less elegant than Tom and Daisy’s dinner party with Nick.

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The sympathy through his ambition and life gives the reader the last piece of the puzzle that shows Gatsby to be a tragic character. Throughout Gatsby’s time in the novel, from the get go, there is early admiration towards him and how determined he is to reach his overall goal of wanting to be with Daisy. This turns into sympathy as the reader learns that no one, other than his father, goes to Gatsby’s funeral. Owl Eyes sums it up entirely as he says to Nick, “Why, my God! They used to go there by the hundreds” (Fitzgerald 175).

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Such as the fact that Nick never meets Tom and Myrtle’s downstairs neighbors, the McKee’s, directly, how Daisy gave Gatsby his name because he introduced himself as Jay Gatz, and how Myrtle never purchased the dog directly though it is still present in the movie. There is also the fact that Gatsby and Nick are not introduced the same way as they are in the book. In the book Nick is sitting at a table with Jordan and Gatsby and mentions that he hasn’t seen the host. Nick still mentions that in the book, but Gatsby mentions Nick over without Jordan in sight changing that small piece of the storyline. The other minor difference that you pick up in the movie that you do not see throughout the book is that Daisy looks like she knows Gatsby is poor when she meets him, which changes the way their relationship is perceived.

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