Tyler Wright
Mrs. Stanford
ENGL 2130
November 23, 2016
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The film version that I will be discussing in this report is the version co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013. For my thesis, I will discuss how Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy, the one piece missing in his perfect fantasy, ironically leads to his downfall and demise, and how he accumulates his wealth through illegal means and his real station in society contribute as well.
The movie begins with the narrator, Nick Carraway, who is being treated for alcoholism and fits of rage in a psychiatric hospital in 1929. During a session with his doctor, he mentions a man who was the most hopeful man he’s ever met, named Gatsby. Nick’s doctor …show more content…
He reveals to Nick that all the parties and the house and the wealth was all for Daisy, and that Gatsby remained hopeful because without Daisy, his life was all for nothing. George later arrives while Gatsby is swimming and shoots him and then himself. No one attends the funeral but Nick and reporters, with Daisy and Tom leaving town for an indefinite amount of time. Nick, disgusted with New York after all these events transpire, takes one last walk through Gatsby’s house and returns to the Midwest (Lurhmann).
The story of The Great Gatsby revolves around Gatsby’s pursuit of higher station in society and wealth to win the love of Daisy. Gatsby pursues these things through illegal means, because he lacks the resources and background to have them otherwise. Per Scott Donaldson in Southern Review:
On the most banal level, The Great Gatsby documents the truism that money can’t buy you love, or at least not the tainted money Gatsby acquires in his campaign to take Daisy away from her husband
Mrs. Stanford
ENGL 2130
November 23, 2016
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. The film version that I will be discussing in this report is the version co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2013. For my thesis, I will discuss how Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy, the one piece missing in his perfect fantasy, ironically leads to his downfall and demise, and how he accumulates his wealth through illegal means and his real station in society contribute as well.
The movie begins with the narrator, Nick Carraway, who is being treated for alcoholism and fits of rage in a psychiatric hospital in 1929. During a session with his doctor, he mentions a man who was the most hopeful man he’s ever met, named Gatsby. Nick’s doctor …show more content…
He reveals to Nick that all the parties and the house and the wealth was all for Daisy, and that Gatsby remained hopeful because without Daisy, his life was all for nothing. George later arrives while Gatsby is swimming and shoots him and then himself. No one attends the funeral but Nick and reporters, with Daisy and Tom leaving town for an indefinite amount of time. Nick, disgusted with New York after all these events transpire, takes one last walk through Gatsby’s house and returns to the Midwest (Lurhmann).
The story of The Great Gatsby revolves around Gatsby’s pursuit of higher station in society and wealth to win the love of Daisy. Gatsby pursues these things through illegal means, because he lacks the resources and background to have them otherwise. Per Scott Donaldson in Southern Review:
On the most banal level, The Great Gatsby documents the truism that money can’t buy you love, or at least not the tainted money Gatsby acquires in his campaign to take Daisy away from her husband