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Comparing Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Book And Movie

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The Great Gatsby is a book following Nick Carraway who comes to New York searching for the American Dream but instead finds friendship with his neighbor Gatsby. Since its release, the book has sold millions of copying around the world and is now known as a Great American Novel. Its overwhelming success has inspired new media types to attempt to recapture the charm of the original books, like a movie created in 2013 by Baz Luhrmann. The film stays mostly faithful to the book it is based on, but new and altered material allows characters like Nick to get more development where it might have been lacking in the book. The first new altercation is a presented at the beginning of the film as where Nick is seen in a Sanitorium talking with
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