Compare And Contrast The Great Gatsby

In today’s world most high school students dislike reading. Many of them say “I don’t have time” or “we have to read boring books”. Because of this many of them say “I will just watch the movie”, but in reality the movie may be very different. This is shown with the commonly read novel The Great Gatsby. The movie The Great Gatsby in 1974 has changed details learned from the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The movie changes when Daisy and Gatsby last seen each other, the people who are met at Gatsby’s party, and what happens when Nick invites Daisy to tea.

The first detail that was changed in the movie is how old Pammy is. In both the novel and the movie, Daisy has a Daughter who is named Pammy. Although Pammy isn’t a main

Nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s extraordinary parties and sees Jordan, one of Daisy’s friends that Nick met. In the novel, after the first dinner, Jordan decided that her and Nick where going to find Gatsby because she had never met him before. Nick and Jordan look for Gatsby. They look at the bar, from the top of the stairs, and on the veranda but they still hadn’t found him. They decided to look for him through an important looking door. When they walked in they found that it was “a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak” Pg 30. In the library, they don’t find Gatsby but they do find “a stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles” pg 30. This man is very drunk, he says that he’s been drunk for about a week and thought that sitting in a library might sober him up. The man is amazed that the books in the library are “absolutely real-- have pages and everything” pg30 Chapter 3. Later that night when everyone is leaving the party, there is an accident right outside the house that involves the owl eyed man. In the movie, Nick does get an invitation to the party and does hang with Jordan at the party but they never look for Gatsby, they never go into the library. In the movie, they skip over meeting the owl eyed man and move onto the next point. Therefore, students have to read the novel in order to know who Nick meets at the first Gatsby

At the first party that Nick attends, he runs into Jordan who is later confronted by Gatsby who pulls her aside to have a private conversation. The reader later learns that Gatsby asked Jordan, to ask Nick if he would invite Daisy to his house for tea. Gatsby wants Nick to invite Daisy over so that he can see her. In both the novel and the movie, Gatsby is very nervous about seeing Daisy and making a good impression so he has his workers clean Nick’s property. When Nick and Gatsby are waiting for Daisy to arrive, Gatsby is very nervous and thinks that she isn't coming. In the novel, once Daisy gets to Nick’s house, Nick goes to greet her leaving Gatsby by himself. When Nick and Daisy come inside Gatsby is gone. A few moments later there is a knock at the door. Nick goes to open the door and finds “Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his pockets, standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes” Chapter 5 page 57. In the movie, once Daisy gets to Nick’s house, Nick goes outside to walk Daisy in and leaves Gatsby in the house by himself. Similar to the novel, when they get inside Gatsby is gone. Gatsby then reappears without knocking or doing anything else to show that he is there. Therefore, the movie changed the detail of how Gatsby shows up at the tea party which if you didn’t read the novel and on the test it asked a question related