Examples Of Imagery In The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby" is a movie based on the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The movie was produced in 2013 by Baz Luhrmann, and screen played by Craig Pearce and Baz Luhrmann. The audience of the novel and movie is young adults and above. The narrator in both the novel and film is Nick Carraway. Some of the other main characters include Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, and Jordan Baker. The novel is a better and detailed version of a story about a man who is fighting for the love of his life, but she is already a wife and mother. Although the movie was a helpful visual of the novel with the use of actors and props, it did not stay as faithful to novel as one would expect and want it to be. The Great Gatsby …show more content…
Imagery is the use of strategic language to represent thing, actions and thoughts in a way that is able to appeal to ones senses. An amazing use of imagery was the death Myrtle. During her death it seemed as if the world had stopped spinning and time had stop ticking. Everything was paused and put in slow motion. The scene includes make up on her face and parts of her body to show the bruises and blood that flowed out of her dismantled body. She lay on the floor; she looked as if she could be perceived as a cracked doll with bouncy red curls. The light is shifted to her and all eyes are on her dead corpse. During this scene in the novel the author uses a perfect example of visual imagery. Visual imagery helps create visual representations for a reader. Myrtles dead body in the film is described to be torn open and in the novel the body was described as, "Myrtle wilson 's body wrapped in a blanket and then in another blanket as thought she suffered from a chill in the hot night" (Fitzgerald 122). The poor dead woman was left to rot and decompose in the cold by Daisy and Gatsby. The film portrays her as a piece of cut up meat, while the novel gives the woman 's body significance and importance. Another form of imagery is auditory. A great example of auditory image is all of Gatsby 's live and extravagant parties. Jordan Baker, in order to describe the parties to her friends says, "Anyhow, he gives large parties. They 're so intimate. At small parties there isn 't any privacy." (Fitzgerald 54). Although Baker may sound crazy she has a valid point. One major imagery that occurs during Gatsby 's parties is tactile imagery. In the film a lot of tactile imagery occurs between Daisy and Gatsby who escape the party to go talk and physically interact with each other. This would have never been possible if Gatsby were to host small parties. In the

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