The Great Gatsby: Differences Between Book And Movie

There are a good amount of differences between the Great Gatsby movie and the book, yet most of them are the same. The differences and similarities are definitely noticeable. The setting of the novel is different from the film. Tom is just one of the five characters that were portrayed very much like the novel. The apartment party had the same idea and intentions just was tweaked a little in the film.
The setting between the novel and the film of The Great Gatsby have their differences and similarities. Both the novel and the film are in Gatsby’s house half of the time because of the parties that take place there. Nick’s house makes a few appearances considering he lives next to Gatsby and Daisy and Gatsby have tea there. Similar places like East egg, West egg, and Valley of Ashes have been mentioned. The book Portrays Tom as a jerk. He makes several racist and sexist remarks. It is easy to dislike …show more content…
Nick joins them, and the film shows Nick sitting in the apartment’s living room while Tom and Myrtle have loud sex in the bedroom. Fitzgerald doesn’t say that but something like that is implied. The film also shows Myrtle’s sister Catherine giving Nick a pill that she says she got from a doctor in Queens; that’s not in the novel at all. In the movie Nick wakes up at home, partially dressed, unsure how he got there, while the novel’s narrator wakes up in an apartment downstairs from Tom and Myrtle’s apartment, owned by one of their friends. Then he goes to the train station to take the train home. There are a good amount of differences between the Great Gatsby movie and the book, yet most of them are the same. The setting of the novel is different from the film. Tom is just one of the five characters that were portrayed very much like the novel. The apartment party had the same idea and intentions just was tweaked a little in the film. The differences and similarities are definitely