Essay On The Differences Between The Great Gatsby Book And Movie

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The major differences found in the film that's different from the novel is Nick. In the novel Nick is a man who comes from a poor family who leaves home to become a bond man. Nick is a straight laced man, it does not appear he gets into much trouble as written by the author. In the book Nick loosens up when he went to the apartment with tom and myrtle (toms mistress). Nick wrote "I have been only drunk twice in my life, and the second time was this afternoon...". This is when Catherine slipped a pill "never killers" between her lips and kissed nick. The party in the book was more different because it wasn't visual but being read. Nick is introduced in the movie after his summer (intro) spent with Gatsby. He is checking into a Sanatorium. In the movie like the …show more content…

Nick ends up waking up in his boxers on his steps. The author chose to change these moments to make a boring character in the book more appealing to the audience. In the movie Jordan Baker is an athlete nearly immediately. Though it doesn’t mean much, her entire storyline is sped up and her romance with Nick is cut out. In the book, the two only ever seem to have a casual affection for each another, especially as Jordan is shown to be dishonest, but in the movie she’s a blank like with no emotion we never get to know all that much about. This actually makes her character quite a bit more mysterious and like able though she wasn't much to go on and wasn't really close to Gatsby. Tom was viewed in the book as a jerk. He makes racists and sexist remarks. It's easy to dislikes he's character. Just like any other movies there's a villain and in the great Gatsby it's Tom Buchanan, tom practically told Wilson that Gatsby is the one to blame for myrtles death. I enjoyed the book more than the movie because I dislike reading to wasn't keeping me entertained and the end scene where myrtle was hit to where Gatsby got shot got my attention. The movie was more breath taking and

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