Mario Acosta Ms.Tobias English III GT-4th 12 January,2017 Comprehension Essay The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was a impressive book during its time that truly captured the era of the time. Later in life it spawned a movie adaptation that was just as impressive. This is a compare and contrast of both the movie and novel. The novel and movie were very in depth and had many similarities,such as the setting of the story being during the prohibition era and before the Great Depression this is supported by the movie being set in 1922 and the way gatsby earned some of his wealth through bootlegging,this is also stated in the novel “I found out what your drug stores …show more content…
This difference is a trivial but could make sense with Nick veins traumatized by the actions in New York The next and final difference between the film and novel was the character Jordan Baker. Jordan was introduced as a professional golfing athlete in the novel from the get go,”Jordan Baker instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men, and now I saw that this was because she felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible. She was incurably dishonest. She wasn't able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.” (Chapter 3.1) She is described as bold and strong in the book while in the movie she isn't mentioned much at all and being more secretive,quiet and seeming like another friend of Daisy’s,although not a serious change it proves to be very odd at times in the