Comparing 'The Great Gatsby': Book And Movie

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The Great Gatsby is a story about the power of money, power, love, and revenge. It also show kind of what the “American Dream” of that time period and what it could consist of. The story the Great Gatsby has two forms of it, one is the novel version the other is the movie. Throughout both versions you get some similar and different things that happen in the story. In more detail this discussion will go more in depth the characters and the scene and how they are similar and different. First let's talk about the characters in both the novel and the film. In the novel the language isn’t quitie as normal or modern day so sometimes it's hard to get a good picture of what they look like, act, and react to certain situations. But in the film the

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