The Great Gatsby Movie And Book Comparison

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Both the movie and film have similar and different characteristics. The two of them all address the same points The American Dream, T.J. Eckleburg Billboard, The Green Light, and obviously the Setting. However, three things in both are notably different and alike. Character Tom Buchanan shares differences and similarities between the novel and the film. The party scenes also share similarities and differences, as they go into depth. Lastly, the T.J. Eckleburg Billboard also shares similarities and differences. Like most novels the Great Gatsby movie was based off of it, therefore the book and novel share similarities, however with the movie being made of recent years it has slight differences when compared to the novel. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald he writes of a character named Tom Buchanan, he is a main character throughout the whole novel. In the novel he is portrayed as a brute who is straight forward and rude. He also is arrogant and high tempered, “...Tom Buchanan broke her nose with an open hand.” (fitz. 37) Just like the novel Tom is very arrogant in the …show more content…

“Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled by prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful world. The groups change more swiftly with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath….”(Fitz. 44) In the second party in both the novel and the movie it describes Nick Carraway being the only one to have gotten an invitation. The movie makes the parties seem a lot larger than they seem in the book. Major similarities show in the last party, Daisy and Tom attend Gatsby’s parties in both and in both Tom becomes curious of Gatsby and his career. “I’d like to know who he is and what he does” said Tom in the Novel, “.. and I think i’ll make a point of finding out”(Fitz. 108). The similarities in both are much greater than the

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