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The Great Gatsby Movie Themes

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The film “The Great Gatsby” has amazing themes in the 1974 and 2013, the themes I selected were from the 2013 version and the themes were “There will always be a chance where you get to see who your true friends are and going to see when you're really close ones aren't who they say they are or think what they are” and also “ Choosing to cover for someone that you have the idea of loving might not always be the right choice” those theme attracted my attention the most.
There will always be a chance where you get to see who your true friends are and going to see when you're really close ones aren't who they say they are or think what they are because when it the time to see their true colors is not going to be at the right time because when you're in trouble you gonna want your friends to help you but then you find that they betrayed you that sorry that they can't help at your time of trouble. In ¨The Great Gatsby¨ Daisy was the one friend that Gatsby trusted and she ended up being selfish and not tell anybody that she was the one who had killed Myrtle instead of Gatsby it seems like she was just using Gatsby's love to overrule the fact she didn't have to ask him if he can say that he was the one driving so she couldn't ruin …show more content…

In ¨ the Great Gatsby¨ Gatsby decides to cover Daisy´s crime because of the blind side he has for Daisy and because he love´s her a lot he decided to take the blame for Myrtle's death, but truly Daisy was the one that had done it she was driving crazy and Myrtle ran in front of the car because she thought it was Tom. In the text, Gatsby is saying ¨was Daisy driving ¨ and ¨Yes, but of course, i'll say I was driving¨(7) he was telling Nick that he was willing to lie for Daisy no matter how much the

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