Gatsby Book Comparison

The end of chapter eight details the tragic events that ended Gatsby’s life. George Wilson, manipulated by Tom, kills Gatsby to seek justice. News spread about Gatsby’s death which caused a lot of traffic at his house; they weren’t people that knew him from a personal level, but were journalists, photographers, police officers and other media positions. Everyone except Nick believed Gatsby was the killer of Myrtle and Wilson was “deranged by grief” (Fitzgerald, 164). Further investigation ended and then the funeral took place. Gatsby’s body demanded Nick to call everyone that regularly attended the party to join him as he couldn’t do it alone: “Look here, old sport, you’ve got to get somebody for me. You’ve got to try hard. I can’t go through this alone.” (Fitzgerald, 166) No one from the

Gatsby and him became great friends, in fact her is Gatsby’s closest. On the contrary, Tom and Gatsby are fighting for the same girl. He is portrayed in the story as an honest, fair-minded individual. For example; he shows that he isn’t one to judge when he says, "I'm inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores". Out of all the Character in this novel, Nick is the only to see Gatsby’s greatness. Gatsby revealed the truth of his life to his dear friend

Nick and Gatsby’s relationship becomes especially clear at the end of the novel. In life, Gatsby appeared to have it all - wealth, status, an innumerable amount of friends, judging by the attendance of his parties. But in death, he was no one.

In the final few chapters we finally get to see Gatsby’s true colors. We see that Gatsby is expressing love towards Daisy when they all decide to go to New York for the day. Tom becomes suspicious and accuses Gatsby of having an affair with his wife and also being a bootlegger. Gatsby tells Tom that he and Daisy love one another and that they are going to be together like they once were in the past. Gatsby was wrong and Daisy ends up staying with Tom. Myrtle Wilson is then ran over by Daisy but Gatsby says that he will take the blame and ends up getting shot. At the beginning of this novel we thought that Gatsby was a well liked, popular guy, but it turns out that no one shows up to attend his funeral.

Gatsby is still a bit truthful and he is in love with Daisy so much that he even takes a bullet for her and they news goes around that “Mr. Gatsby 's dead”(166) and he died to protect the woman he loved.

The novel ends two years after these events with Nick's observation of what has become of him during the elapsed time. Nick finally realizes that Gatsby was living in an unreal world where he thought he could posses time and buy back the past. Three people have died because of the lies and deception and with Gatsby's death, no one comes to his funeral except his father and Old Owl Eyes.

He wants closure about what happened between them. Daisy confronts Gatsby about an affair she had with Tom, and he doesn’t even care at this point because what they had was ‘real’. She claims to love them both but she decides she wants to go back with Gatsby and not her husband. On her way back, she accidently kills a woman on the side of the road speeds off with Gatsby’s car. Gatsby gets blamed for the death and the husband of the woman shoots him. No one attends Gatsby’s funeral but Nick. This goes to show Gatsby really had no body in his life, and his own true love whom he did everything for, didn’t love him equally. Throughout the whole book, Fitzgerald points out that Gatsby was living his American dream, but because his dream was Daisy, he was living his dream out of fantasy not reality.

In summary of the novel, Gatsby is in love with a girl named Daisy. After a heated argument, Daisy drove home and hit another woman. While it was her fault, Gatsby immediately decided to take the blame and was killed by the woman’s husband. As

and they eventually find out it was Gatsby 5. Nick likes and admires Gatsby throughout the novel. He at one point says that Gatsby is worth more than all of the other characters in his narrative put together. He simply feels that Gatsby deserves a strong showing at the funeral. Nick also believes he sees something in Gatsby that others don't.

Gatsby’s death was described very indirectly yet still distinguishable, “...a thin red circle in the water. It was after we started with Gatsby toward the house that the gardener saw Willson’s body a little way off in the grass, the holocaust was complete” (Fitzgerald, 162). Gatsby dying so close to his goal is part of why his life embodies the American dream. The American dream was crumbling and dying, just like what happened to Gatsby and his dream of Daisy. Another thing that symbolized this is “I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment, and I could only remember without resentment that Daisy hadn’t sent a message or a flower” (Fitzgerald, 174).

In the film, Gatsby dies a winner, near the end it shows that there is still hope that Gatsby will get Daisy. Nick narrates that Gatsby is waiting for Daisy, he reacts when the phone rings, comes out of the pool as if he is expecting a call that she will be leaving Tom. After Mr. Gatsby has been shot the audience realizes it was not Daisy, it was Nicky. For Gatsby, he knows that it was Daisy, which made him believe she still cared.

As we read the last chapters in The Great Gatsby we seen the full truth of Gatsby revealed. After spending the past five years creating a world in which he one day hopes to please Daisy with Gatsby is almost certain that things will go back to the way they once were when he first met Daisy. Gatsby admits to Nick saying, “I can’t describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport”(150). Unfortunately, Gatsby can not seem to accept reality and has put himself in a denial stage, unable to realize that time has changed. While on their way back home Daisy drives recklessly and commits a hit and run, instantly killing her [Tom’s Lover, Myrtle].

The audience is introduced to Gatsby’s goals and are aware of them throughout the entire movie, rooting for him the entire way. The viewer is influenced through other techniques to want Gatsby to reach his dreams, and so when he doesn’t it causes the audience to be upset over what could have been. This is projected through Lurhmanns use of tracking/dolly shots. After Gatsby is shot, you see him say his last word ‘Daisy’ as he falls back, which is shown through a tracking/dolly shot over the pool. This shot exemplifies Gatsby’s death and create the sombre atmosphere that the rest of the movie holds.

At one point they end up sitting at a table with some other people. "We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age...'Your face is familiar,' he said politely" (51). The two men began to talk about the war for some time and then their conversation turned to the party. "This is an unusual party for me. I haven't even seen the host. I live over there... and this man named Gatsby sent over his chauffeur with an invitation... 'I'm Gatsby,' he said suddenly (52). The meeting in the movie occurred differently. They were still at a party in Gatsby's house, but Gatsby met Nick in a crowd of people and it seemed as if he was looking for Nick. When they met, Gatsby knew exactly who Nick was, where in the novel he did not.

In both, Gatsby is awaiting the call from Daisy telling him that she was going to leave Tom and run away with him. In the book, Gatsby is floating in his pool but “No telephone message arrive[s]” (Ch.8) and Gatsby is killed knowing Daisy has chosen Tom instead. Contrastly, the movie takes a more flashy approach instead, as Gatsby takes a dive into the water and steps out as the phone rings. It is here where Wilson takes his shot and Gatsby dies thinking that Daisy was calling to confess her love. Ultimately this changes Gatsby’s death completely, as he dies lonely and depressed in the novel whereas in the movie he dies thinking he won Daisy’s love which in turn changes the theme slightly as Gatsby’s death is no longer symbolic used as a conclusion for Gatsby’s life but rather a cliffhanger where he is taken away from his chance to achieve his