Santiago Lopez Jr
Ms. Tobias
English III GT-6th
10 January 2017
Gatsby The Good Ol’ Sport
In this essay, I will be comparing the novel and the 2013 motion picture, The Great Gatsby. Throughout the book and the movie, there are multiple differences, some of which are minuscule but others are highly noticeable. The Great Gatsby is a story about a man by the name of Nick Carraway and how his view on life was changed by a man claiming the name of Jay Gatsby.
The book The Great Gatsby was written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. This book, although very similar to the movie, has some minor details that were left out of the movie franchise and vice versa.
One of the similarities between the novel and the movie was that they both were consistent …show more content…
The scene of the party in the movie shows Nick in a drunken state and unable to control what he was doing. The book, however, doesn’t take the party to that extremity. The second difference that I would like to point out is the relationship between Nick and Jordan. The movie failed to show the romantic relationship that the two had together while the book seemed to display a much more rather intimate relationship. And the final difference I would like to call to attention is the death of Gatsby. In the movie he died hopeful, thinking he got the girl but in the book he dies unsure and frightened that he would never have daisy. The idea that he is frightened is supported by this quote, “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw sunlight was upon the scarcely cut grass.”. In the movie, Gatsby is shot as his butler answers a phone call he has been waiting for. Just before he is shot the butler says “I know Mr. Gatsby will be very happy that you’ve called.” and Gatsby assumes it’s daisy because before he dies he manages to whisper “Daisy” one last
Ms. Tobias
English III GT-6th
10 January 2017
Gatsby The Good Ol’ Sport
In this essay, I will be comparing the novel and the 2013 motion picture, The Great Gatsby. Throughout the book and the movie, there are multiple differences, some of which are minuscule but others are highly noticeable. The Great Gatsby is a story about a man by the name of Nick Carraway and how his view on life was changed by a man claiming the name of Jay Gatsby.
The book The Great Gatsby was written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. This book, although very similar to the movie, has some minor details that were left out of the movie franchise and vice versa.
One of the similarities between the novel and the movie was that they both were consistent …show more content…
The scene of the party in the movie shows Nick in a drunken state and unable to control what he was doing. The book, however, doesn’t take the party to that extremity. The second difference that I would like to point out is the relationship between Nick and Jordan. The movie failed to show the romantic relationship that the two had together while the book seemed to display a much more rather intimate relationship. And the final difference I would like to call to attention is the death of Gatsby. In the movie he died hopeful, thinking he got the girl but in the book he dies unsure and frightened that he would never have daisy. The idea that he is frightened is supported by this quote, “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw sunlight was upon the scarcely cut grass.”. In the movie, Gatsby is shot as his butler answers a phone call he has been waiting for. Just before he is shot the butler says “I know Mr. Gatsby will be very happy that you’ve called.” and Gatsby assumes it’s daisy because before he dies he manages to whisper “Daisy” one last