The Great Gatsby Comparison Essay

The book “The Great Gatsby” was written & published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1922. The Great Gatsby depicts the story told from the perspective of Nick Carraway, the novel’s narrator. The story is based on the experiences of Nick Carraway with his neighbour, Jay Gatsby. The book was adapted twice in movie form, the first in 1974 and the second in 2013. The 1974 adaptation was directed by Jack Clayton and the 2013 adaptation of the film was directed by Baz Luhrmann. This analysis will explore the adaptation of the novel The Great Gatsby, written by the F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby film. In particular, how the narrative has evolved through the adaptation process.

I believe that Gatsby is still in denial with Daisy’s love. He wants the Daisy that once loved him instead of the Daisy she is now. After all the Daisy he wanted only loved him any nobody

Throughout the entire novel, Jay Gatsby always seems to hold Daisy in the highest regard as if there could never be anything wrong with her. As the reader discovers throughout the novel, this is not the case. Daisy does have many flaws which to the reader are very obvious, but to Gatsby they are simply dismissed as a figment of his imagination. This illusion Gatsby has carries on to everything he does and everyone he meets. He has his own fantasy world in which everything he wants exists and anything he does not want does not. Because Gatsby created his own fantasy world, the Daisy he fell in love with never actually existed showing

     Daisy falls for the same shallowness that Gatsby does. She doesn’t love Gatsby for who he is—she does like him for his personality, partly, but it’s mostly because he has the money now, and is therefore much more qualified to be with her. Daisy really doesn’t want to be with Tom, for example, “I’d never seen a girl so mad about her husband” (p. 76) Jordan says, on how Daisy felt after marrying Tom. She wanted Gatsby. Or rather, she wanted to have a nice husband that would be a caring, rich gentleman. And Gatsby fills that idea up perfectly.

The reality of this is that Daisy lives a very comfortable life with no worries or complaints about it, and she would never leave Tom, who fulfills her every desire for a man like Gatsby. Also, both the book and movie were centered around Gatsby, readers of the book, and audiences of the movie are drawn toward his sense of mystery, how no one really knows what he does, or what he had done to get all of his money and popularity. He is a person people want to be, people want to know, people want to talk about. He is, in a sense a celebrity, by today's standards.

Gatsby reuniting with Daisy for the first time in five years changes Gatsby. He believes he has found his way. At Least after the first few awkward minutes with Daisy. The film has this scene setup very similarly to the book, but there are quite a few key differences.. You can read and see Gatsby’s uneasiness before Daisy arrives. Gatsby’s doubt of her arrival. It is raining before and even after Daisy arrives. A rather gloomy setting for Gatsby to meet Daisy the love of his life. Just before Gatsby meets Daisy in the Book Nick said this said “pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water”(Fitzgerald 86). This foreshadows Gatsby dying in his pool. The movie never does anything to foreshadow Gatsby's death in a similar manner. Once Gatsby and Daisy are talking the tense silence between them Is felt more in the book. Nick said “For half a minute there wasn’t a sound”(Fitzgerald 86). The movie breaks the awkward silence with a soft song, in a similar manner to restaurants having music in the background. The book does not back down for creating a odd first meeting between the two, unlike the book. Not long after Nick is outside giving Gatsby and Daisy space to talk in private. In the film he talks about being “within and without”(Fitzgerald 35). This quote is in the book, however it is when Nick is with Myrtle, Tom, and Catherine. The Film Nick mentions directly that he is guarding both Tom and Daisy’s secret. In the Book this is implied throughout the whole Book. The Film’s approach the reuniting of Daisy and Gatsby maybe more pleasing as a viewer, but the book was

But Gatsby didn’t realize that Daisy is simply unable to play this role in Gatsby’s life. “She’s the enchanted object, the great American dream, all bright eyes and a voice full of money—and of course she’s the light, that green light, drawing men, moth like, to her flame. ” （ Katie Baker) Absolutely, Daisy was looks like a honourable princess under the decoration of the money, she is so much attractive and gentle that she is like a Man Killer, and everyone would willing to put down their identities and status, chasing to her.

Society has a very strange way of engraving “socially acceptable” or “morally correct” commodities into the heads of its citizens. How it is socially unacceptable to be with someone of a less class than yourself, or it is morally incorrect for women to work and make more money than their husband. Daisy is a prime example of conforming to the corrupt views that society has placed on their citizens. Daisy is a naturally manipulative person all seems to use her natural gifts of beauty to get whatever her heart desires. Daisy often wield other people such as Tom, Gatsby, and her cousin nick to string her way into each of their souls. Daisy and Gatsby were truly in love however, she denied him solely because he did not have the status, money, and look that she felt was acceptable for her in the eyes of everyone else.

Oftentimes when novels are adapted into movies, important details are excluded. Some movies however, manage to incorporate all the intricate details in the literary work. “The Great Gatsby”, directed by Baz Luhrmann, sadly does not accommodate all information, and slightly varies from the American classic on which it is based, The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The screenplay differs from the book within the characters, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, and Jay Gatsby, and the inclusion of the mental health asylum.

I thought that Daisy would leave Tom because she truly loved Gatsby. However, when Jordan explained the reason Daisy married Tom Buchanan, my opinion of her immediately changed. Daisy promised Gatsby that she would wait for him, yet when someone who had more money came along, Daisy went with him. It’s an extremely shallow thing to do. This is when I started to saw Daisy for who she really is: a selfish and shallow woman. She married Tom for the money. She unintentionally pressured Gatsby into lying about his past and where he came from just so she could be somewhat impressed by him. Even when she admitted she still loved Gatsby, she didn’t show up to his funeral. Granted, Tom would not have let her most likely, but she did not have the decency to call Nick to tell him. Although Gatsby was much more well known than Tom, Daisy did end up choosing Tom over Gatsby because Gatsby’s rise to wealth wasn’t the way she wanted him to get there. She’s truly just selfish and only wants to make it seem like she has the perfect life. She simply wants others to envy

The famous reunion scene between Gatsby and Daisy is an important part for the movie to go off from. Normally, I would say that the new version doesn't fit the story as the book. It felt more like an adaptation. However, the long and drawn out awkwardness of the 1974 version takes away from the feeling of excitement and overall point of the scene. For that reason, the 2013 version better executes it.

During The Great Gatsby Daisy is living like she has everything together and she is living on the top just as the American Dream Suggests but little does she know that she married the wrong man. Daisy thinks she has everything but soon realizes she doesn't and that she really has nothing. She has a but she didn’t really get talked about that much during the book so this kinda shows how much daisy really don’t care for her that much. “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool”. (Pg. 17) Daisy said this because she thinks that all women have in the world is their looks and that her daughter is only gonna get far because of her looks. When Daisy sees Gatsby for the first time in years she just is in shock and crys. I think that in this moment of seeing gatsby for the first time in years she thinks back and come to her sense that she just married because of money and not for true love. She thinks that if she would have married gatsby they would have had true love and money. The American dream pretty much ruined Daisies happiness.

In the film Gatsby is caught entering out of the pool when he hears the phone ring. He begins looking out into the distance towards the Buchanan residence. Gatsby is then fatally shot by Wilson and dies thinking Daisy was calling to run away with him. To add, Wilson shot himself right after killing Gatsby next to the pool. However, none of those events took place in the book. The murder scene in the book took place in Gatsby’s pool while he was laying on an air mattress. Gatsby was predicting and waiting on a call, however none was made. Wilson was later found dead a little way off in the grass by Nick and butlers. Gatsby died frightened when Nick states, “He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass” (Fitzgerald

Though the Baz Luhrmann does a good job at depicting the The Great Gatsby; some scenes better than others, he got Daisy’s demeanor all wrong. As F. Scott Fitzgerald writes in the novel, “Please don’t,’ she interrupted helplessly.” (Fitzgerald, 130) Daisy is desperate not a damsel in distress. The movie depicts her as a young ignorant woman with tears streaming down her face all through the cinematic scene. “Oh please don’t!” she exclaims in the movie with tears streaming down her face as her trembling hands try to light a cigarette. In the book she has a better hold on herself. The novel makes Daisy appear as if she is a much stronger woman than she is in the movie. Not to say that Daisy is a smart refined character by any means, she seems

In the film one might feel bad for daisy, but those who read the novel knew the real daisy and how bad of a person she really was. In the film daisy states she did love tom but she also loves Gatsby, but not once did she bring it to tom's attention that her and Gatsby had had a past almost 8 years ago. Other than the novel where Nick Carraway the narrator of the novel clearly explains to us that daisy is nowhere close to being innocent but far from it. He shows us that it has happened in the past and that she is every part to blame them moving from place to place just as much as tom and his disloyalty towards daisy.