Chapter five of “The Great Gatsby is the pivoting point of the novel. It's where Gatsby's dream becomes a reality. He sees Daisy for the first time in five years. The film portrays the events in chapter five a little different by leaving and adding new dialogue and events. For instance in the book when Nick agrees to invite Daisy to tea he calls her, “Don’t bring Tom,” I warned her. “What?” “Don’t bring Tom.” “Who is ‘Tom’?” she asked innocently. This conversation was never in the film. Another instance was when in the novel when Nick leaves Gatsby and Daisy alone he talks about looking at Gatsby's house and tells a story of a brewer who built the house in his “period” craze. In The film however Nick mentions nothing about the house or the …show more content…
“See how the whole front of it catches the light.” I agreed that it was splendid. “Yes.” His eyes went over it, every arched door and square tower. “It took me just three years to earn the money that bought it.” “I thought you inherited your …show more content…
But in the film the first thing we see inside the house is a big orange making machine and then them playing on the beach. After the beach they get inside and tells someone to wake up Klipspringer to play the piano. They could not have gone outside because Nick said “After the house, we were to see the grounds and the swimming-pool, and the hydroplane and the mid-summer flowers — but outside Gatsby’s window it began to rain again”. In the novel rained twice, once at Nick's house and the second at Gatsby's house, in the film it only rained once at Nick's house. In the film after Gatsby answers the phone call music starts playing and Daisy and nick dance as Gatsby watches, as he there is a flashback to when the first time Gatsby and Daisy met and the war. After the flashback Gatsby and Daisy dance and she says she wished she had done everything on earth him him, then Nick leaves them alone again. In the book after the phone call Gatsby called Klipspringer and told him to play the piano. Klipspringer argues that he's not play well and he's out of practice and starts to sing. The film left out the conversation and the singing. In the book there was no dancing or flashback or Daisy saying anything. Nick just described Gatsby's emotions and left them alone.The