How Is Daisy Portrayed In The Great Gatsby

I believe the writer F. Scott Fitzgerland would enjoy Baz Durham's twist of the novel, The Great Gatsby. Although, there are many symbols that are portrayed differently in the film, I think that some of the various representations of these symbols would be respected. Such symbols that the director adds or modifys are the colors that are associated with Daisy. The colors that Daisy is corelated with in the book is always yellow. Similarly, gold resembles wealth and old money (west egg) where Daisy lives, however, yellow can be seen as fake gold. Acting fake corresponds to Daisy's personality toward Gatsby and how she tries to juggle her past love, Jay... and her somewhat current, Tom. She does not act herself, which makes her not gold and more

so yellow. On the other hand, in the movie, the color white is represented with Daisy.

From the first scene with the white curtains and dropping of pearls, to her white dress while always being surrounded by flowers really alludes to purity. Lurhman creates this innocence that Gatsby sees, yet what is purposesly ironic is how she is not what she tends to express. Daisy's constant changing of decions on whether to be with Tom or Gatsby, shows her true colors which are far from white, she is truly an uncaring indiviudal who takes Jay's love for granted. Being called, "the golden girl" in the text, it is also irony with Fizgerald. The second symbol is the clock that Gatsby leans on. Fitzgerald uses this leaning on clock gesture to exemplify how Gatsby uses time as a crutch to get back Daisy's love. Jay with a lot of nerves says, "I am sorry about the clock" (Chapter 5). The difference with movie and text is that the clock is already broken in the novel, this helps how the time that he never gives up on Daisy will soon run out. Another symbol that differs, is the books in Gatsby's library. In the text, owl eyes opens up the books to show Jordyn and Nick how dusty and unopened they are. Owl eyes states in the book, "It's a bona-fide piece of printed

matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism" (Chapter 3). This reaction is absolute amazment over what he discovered. Yet, in the film, the books were never opened, but were still stated being fake. While also reading the book, I would think in this 1920's error the music played at partys and such would be classy jazz swing, but in the movie directed by Baz; He used the artist JayZ as a moderist rapper, to be the soundtrack. Having this distinct genre adds to the affect of modernism and change in this time period. Also it is ironic and clever how the artist's name is JayZ, while the main character is also named Jay. Throughout the movie as well, it was more directed toward the relationship of Gatsby and Daisy, and nothing else... I think that Fitzgerland would not like that, yet the overall objective of showing Gatsby's strive for the American Dream was perfectly shown. The American Dream was shown in the same way with text and film through symbols of the green light, valley of ashes and use of seasons. Due to a movie being a couple hours long, I think Fitzgerald would approve of the effort of showing the American Dream and include most symbols he did. Even though they are expressed in a diverse way, it does not mean the focus isn't there. "Gatsby believed in the green light" (Chapter 9). If he never did beleive in that light, then his life would have never had meaning.