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Great Gatsby Book Vs Movie

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I think that the 2013 movie The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann is a good representation of the book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby is a story told by the main character and narrator Nick Carraway, who had moved from the Midwest to West Egg, Long Island to be a bonds salesman and tells about his time meeting Jay Gatsby. I think that the movie and the book are very similar and have almost identical scenes with little differences and to show this I’ve picked the three scenes from the book as examples. The first scene is where Nick is invited to Gatsby's party for the first time, the second scene is when Jordan asks Nick to meet with her for tea, and the last scene is the meeting at the Buchanan's house …show more content…

A few differences were that in the movie Nick names off the types of people that show up to one of Gatsby's parties like “ Film stars, Broadway directors, morality protectors, high school defectors.” but, in the book Nick’s only example of the people there was “Young Englishmen dotted about”. Other differences were that in the movie Jordan had greeted Nick first while in the book Nick found Jordan in the garden and quickly went to greet her, and when Jordan and Nick went to find Gatsby in the library instead of the owl-eyed man saying the books were real he said Gatsby was fake. In both the book and the movie when Nick met Gatsby, he was not aware that the man he was talking to was Jay Gatsby, but in the movie Nick embarrassed himself more when he repeated rumors had heard to Gatsby that “He’s third cousin to Kaiser and second cousin to the devil”.(Fitzgerald pg.46) …show more content…

In the movie when Nick met with Jordan he was visibly agitated and questioned her motives, but in the book nothing like that happens, instead their meeting starts with Jordan telling Nick about when she first met Gatsby. Similarities in the scene were when Jordan was talking about Daisy's and, Gatsby's relationship and said “The way he looked at her is the way all girls want to be looked at.” ,other similarities were when Tom had bought Daisy a pearl necklace worth three hundred and fifty dollars, and that before marrying Tom, Daisy was saying she had changed her mind. A small difference was that in the book Daisy had pulled the pearls out of the trash, but in the movie, it had shown Daisy ripping them off her neck.(Fitzgerald

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