Nick Carraway, the protagonist in The Great Gatsby, has recently moved from the Midwest to start his career in New York. He moves into a house in West Egg, Long Island, which is poorer than East Egg where his cousin Daisy and her husband Tom live. Tom is cheating on Daisy with Myrtle Wilson, who lives with her his husband in the Valley of Ashes. Nick lives next door to a mysterious man named Gatsby, who throws extravagant parties. Apparently no one knows anything about him or has ever seen him. Nick befriends him after he receives a hand-delivered invitation to one of his parties and finds out he is in love with Daisy and that they almost married when they were younger. Gatsby, with Nick’s help, reconnects with Daisy again and they end up having
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Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel and is Fitzgerald’s critique of American society in the 1920s conveyed through Nick Carraway, a writer and veteran, and the events that occur when he moves to West Egg and meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a mysterious business man whose extravagant parties are legendary. The production and costume design by Catherine Martin is amazing and brings out the film’s themes and character details. Gatsby’s house, although filled with energy, is hollow and empty. The costumes are attractive and have important character details like Nick’s bowties and suits and Gatsby’s white suit that he wears when he surprises Daisy. Later Gatsby throws all of his expensive shirts down to her in an attempt to impress her while also hiding his true class and …show more content…
The themes from the novel about the decline of the American dream and differences in class are present in the film and clearly expressed through Gatsby’s overelaborate home, his pink suit, Rolls-Royce and persistent and tragic pursuit of Daisy; compared to Tom’s elegant home and Daisy’s white dress, representing grace. The director makes sure that the themes are present but not too obvious, for example with the cuts back to the Doctor TJ Eckleburg billboard of a pair of giant eyes wearing glasses to remind us that everything we do is being watched and
Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel and is Fitzgerald’s critique of American society in the 1920s conveyed through Nick Carraway, a writer and veteran, and the events that occur when he moves to West Egg and meets his neighbor, Jay Gatsby, a mysterious business man whose extravagant parties are legendary. The production and costume design by Catherine Martin is amazing and brings out the film’s themes and character details. Gatsby’s house, although filled with energy, is hollow and empty. The costumes are attractive and have important character details like Nick’s bowties and suits and Gatsby’s white suit that he wears when he surprises Daisy. Later Gatsby throws all of his expensive shirts down to her in an attempt to impress her while also hiding his true class and …show more content…
The themes from the novel about the decline of the American dream and differences in class are present in the film and clearly expressed through Gatsby’s overelaborate home, his pink suit, Rolls-Royce and persistent and tragic pursuit of Daisy; compared to Tom’s elegant home and Daisy’s white dress, representing grace. The director makes sure that the themes are present but not too obvious, for example with the cuts back to the Doctor TJ Eckleburg billboard of a pair of giant eyes wearing glasses to remind us that everything we do is being watched and