Who doesn’t love the Jazz Age with the use of heartfelt struggle? The Great Gatsby is an incredible novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the story was also made into numerous graphic novels and a movie alternative. Each version has its own method of storytelling depending on how they want to portray the story and compare it to one another. Fitzgerald explores the theme of fighting for nothing to help present, basing a character on his own life. Along with that, there are apparent dissimilarities between a visual and regular novel and the film with the novel. Nonetheless, an author can turn a narrative into anything they desire and any theme. One example is “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past,” which signifies the matter of battling for something and, in return, gaining nothing (F. 200). “If that was true, he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream,” is a sentence that refers to Fitzgerald’s life and how he also sacrificed things for his life and ended up with no result (F. 189). To some extent, The Great Gatsby …show more content…
Which is clear that a graphic novel pertains to pictures and a comic type of approach, and a novel consists of just words. While reading a graphic novel, you can see each scene you are reading, almost like a movie, instead of fantasizing about what the characters may look like or having to use more detailed writing. The examples “Tom had changed since his New Haven years,” (F. 8) and “So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York,” shows how little detail the author needed to reveal the characteristics of the characters compared to a text-based novel (F. 38). The contrast between the two varies with the majority of the storytelling incorporated dialogue with bubbles and narration boxes to form the story compared to a well-ordered