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The Great Gatsby Comparison Essay

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In chapter 3 of The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby throws a gigantic party and invites his neighbor, Nick Carraway, to his party. This is significant because Gatsby is “in love” with Nick’s cousin Daisy. By inviting Nick, he befriends him in order to become closer to him to ask him to reintroduce him to Daisy, who is now married with child. In The Great Gatsby, Mr. Gatsby has unquestionably eccentric tastes. We can take notice to this in the book as well as in both films. However, like all adaptations, there are some differences between the three works. The newer movie appears to be the closest though. With the newer technology that we have, that’s not surprising. The scenes are bold and draw attention. There was just enough of too much to make it interesting. While in the book it tells us just how over-the-top Mr. Gatsby’s parties are, the movies can show us and captivate us. In the 2013 adaptation the …show more content…

Gatsby always has colossal blowouts and they happen so often and are so sizable that people from all over New York show up. The book, portrays Gatsby’s party as this amazing, breath-taking scene with people all over the place and dancing and drinking, while the first movie is bland and doesn’t show how eccentric the first party is. The second movie, however, is bright, bold, eye-catching, and reels you in. While both movies left out the scene from the library, the second one makes a quick reference to it. Also, in the 1997 version of the movie, Gatsby summons Nick to a room to meet him, while that’s not the case in the book. In the book Nick “happens upon” Gatsby and is only informed it is the host himself when Gatsby reveals himself to Nick after listening to Nick tell him some of the rumors he was just told himself. The party is much better represented in the new book because of the fact that it sticks closer to the book and uses bolder colors and

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In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, there is a significant difference between Jay Gatsby’s parties and his funeral. The main difference is the people who came to the events. Before reuniting with Daisy, Jay Gatsby is best known for his extravagant parties that hundreds of people attend. After his death, there are only a few people who cared enough about Gatsby to attend his funeral. Gatsby’s parties and his funeral had some similar and some very different kinds of attendance.

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The Great Gatsby is a story about a man, who climbed his way up to the top with sheer determination and a girl who had an abusive cheating husband whom she did not really love. It is told by a man who is relatively poor, lives next to Jay Gatsby and is a cousin of Daisy’s. The newest movie is quite similar to the book but there are some differences. In the book, there is much more ‘space’ left for the description of the scenes.

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In the book, Gatsby was a character with a lot of respect and integrity. He wasn’t the type of guy to let his feelings escalate out of control, but in the film we saw that he loses his temper and lashes out on Tom, when he starts making accusations that they are different. Another character that was portrayed differently was, Daisy Buchanan. In the book, the author wanted the audience to give no sympathy towards Daisy because of the way she left Gatsby. Daisy seemed to be shallow and selfish through the actions that she made, and didn’t seem to be interested in the relationship that was once there with Gatsby.

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In both versions of the film, there were many characteristics and events that were extremely similar. In both the 1970 and 2013 Gatsby movies both movies like to party they drink and do lots of drugs they don't care about rules , they do whatever they want . Gatsby is rich and lives in west egg right across the bay from daisy , he always throws huge parties so that one day daisy well come in one day wandering and looking for gatsby he only drinks but doesn't go party with the other people or talk to them he always tends to be by himself . Men wear suits and women wear dresses there these huge houses and nice cars .

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The main party scene is a great example of this contrast in music in the two movies. The 1974 past version uses the song called “Jordan’s Tango” by Nelson Riddle which is a song produced with ragtime and jazz components of the 1920’s to get crowds of this time moving. While this song was played in the movie there was a huge carnival tent popped out in front of J. Gatsby’s mansion, while this tent was more appropriate for this time it didn't really connect to the viewers because it was more seen as a precipitly placed circus tent. While in the 2013 present movie version, the party scene was larger, grander, and bombarding the viewer with the feel of a party. The party was boisteriously flowing out of Gatsby's mansion, as implied by the book, and draped all of its attendees with alcohol and glitter.

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