The Great Gatsby: Similarities And Differences

Chantell Ramirez
Ms. Tobias
English 3 GT-6th
12 January 2017
The Great Gatsby similarities and differences
The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, it was published in 1925. It was taken place in the roaring 20s’ and it was about the American dream, this was taken place before the Great Depression, everybody had no worries about the economy. The film was made in 2013 and it was directed by Baz Luhrmann. Between the film and the novel there was some differences that seemed minor but they affected the relationships between the characters that changed the way you thought of the characters. For example, in the film they didn’t go into detail about Nick and Jordan’s relationship or they made Daisy seem so innocent in the movie but

The similarities in the novel say about the strongest points of the film are the scene when he gets the invitation to the “little party” because if Luhrmann didn’t include it, it would’ve seemed fake because Nick’s character isn’t the outgoing type. Comparing the book and the film gave a new perspective because Daisy was portrayed as a innocent girl who didn’t know her husband was cheating on her in the film, but in the novel we realize that she isn’t that thoughtless, she mostly cared about herself. I really enjoyed the little detail that was added at the end of the film when Nick adds “The Great” to the title of the novel he wrote about Gatsby because it tied the whole film together. In the novel Fitzgerald should’ve added “The Great” becuase it would’ve been so unique and interesting because you start thinking about the whole novel. In conclusion the film and the novel are great although the film might not be entirely similar to the novel but they added some stuff to the film that the novel didn’t have, but it worked. I thought the movie was better because I thought the ending of the movie was so much better than the novel ending. When Nick ends the film by adding “The Great” it made me tear up, because he was the only one who actually cared about Gatsby, all those people that would go to his parties never really cared about him, the majority of them didn’t know what Gatsby looked like, but Nick could’ve stopped being his friend after Gatsby took the fall for Daisy but no Nick wanted to know if Daisy called Gatsby because he knew Gatsby was madly in love with her. At the end of the film Gatsby dies a winner well he thinks he does, because when he gets the phone call he goes to get it but he is shot, he thinks he won Daisy but really it was just