The Great Lifestyles Of The Roaring Twenties ' Book And Film Comparison

‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald belongs to one of the most celebrated and intriguing novels of all time; it is considered a literary masterpiece of the twentieth century. The story follows the enigmatic Long Island billionaire Jay Gatsby, who is, after years, still besotted with Daisy Buchanan and wishes to reunite. The reader becomes familiar with Gatsby’s character through the eyes of 29-year-old narrator Nick Carraway, who appears to not only be Gatsby’s new neighbor, but also Daisy’s relative. After coming to an awareness of Gatsby’s amorous past with Daisy, Nick makes an effort reuniting the two, and from there a series of unfortunate events take place. The story takes place in 1922, which allowed the author to create an accurate portrayal of the roaring twenties and its lost generation. Because of the novel’s popularity, there have been numerous film adaptations since its

Most think that Gatsby and Tom are very different characters but they are the same in more ways than one would think. Both Gatsby and Tom use a lot of people in this novel. For example, Gatsby is only using Nick to get to Daisy. Gatsby uses other people as well; he only throws the parties to see if Daisy would come. Tom, like Gatsby, uses people. Tom used Daisy when he married her just so he could have someone to settle down with. When he meets Myrtle he realizes he truly does not love Daisy and he keeps Myrtle for sexual fulfilment. After Myrtle dies Tom runs off with Daisy because she is the only one that he has left. Both men live in luxury and both men think they should have Daisy. Both Gatsby and Tom will do almost anything and everything to get what

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.

Tom Buchanan plays a large role in the great Gatsby and is greatly representative of the rich “old money” part of society, and, in many ways what was wrong with it. F. Scott Fitzgerald may have made Tom a villain because of their rejection of him in his earlier life. Fitzgerald has used Tom in The Great Gatsby, to demonstrate the power that men had during the 1920s. In order to understand Tom's purpose in the book, it must be known that he has been purposely set up as a character the reader does not like. Fitzgerald has done this, as he does not like men whose lives mirror Tom's. Tom is a violent man, who is completely in control of the women in his life. He shows how disrespectful some

Nick’s descriptions of the two houses depict a true representation of the person within. No matter how alike the houses are in size or style, Nick is able to identify the people inside with his word choices and honest perceptions. At the beginning Nick says East and West Egg were “identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay”, but the “more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”(5). The contrasting dynamic of

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is about a writer named Nick Carraway. He leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922 . Nick chases his American Dream and ends up living next door to a mysterious, party-loving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who is  across the water from his cousin, Daisy and her husband, Tom Buchanan. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals that the upper class society is corrupt from money. This is best proven through Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom.

Jay Gatsby moves from being the son of "shiftless and unsuccessful farm people" (Fitzgerald 105) to becoming the owner of a huge West Egg mansion with "a marble swimming pool and over forty acres of lawn and garden" (Fitzgerald 11), this exemplifies the possibilities offered by the American dream. Gatsby earns his money through illegal means, which places him in the new money category, and as a result he flaunts by throwing extravagant parties and purchasing expensive cars. The main reason Gatsby does these things is to get the attention and win the affection of Daisy, which is the major component of his dream. Old money, on the other hand, has had money for generations, so they do not flaunt their wealth. Old money, people like Tom and Daisy, look down on the newly rich, because they got rich quick, illegally and, because they are threatening the status quo.

IN the end there is still hope that Gatsby will get Daisy. At the end Gatsby is swimming in the pool and Nick narrates that he is Waiting for Daisy. Gatsby hears the phone ring and he starts climbing out of the pool. It was almost if Gatsby was waiting for a call from Gatsby saying that she would leave Tom. He pauses as he hears the butler say “I know Mr.Gatsby will be happy that you called.” Gatsby continues to get out of the pool and then he was shot and you hear him say “Daisy”. It isn't until after Gatsby was shot that we realize that the audience realizes the person who called was only Nick who was calling. As far as Gatsby knows, it was Daisy which made him believe she still

In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is killed by George Wilson. This is because Tom Buchanan, told Mr.Wilson that Gatsby had killed Myrtle even though Daisy was the one that was driving when Myrtle was hit. Because of this, George believes that Gatsby is the one that killed his wife. Therefore, George shoots Gatsby, but George is not entirely the one to blame. There are many characters to blame for Gatsby’s death, but Daisy was arguably the major reason for Gatsby’s death.

East Egg and West Egg are "identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay ... They are not perfect ovals ... but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual wonder to the gulls that fly overhead. To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."(9) In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald creates different worlds, where many different people live amongst each other. The areas of East Egg and West Egg in Long Island find isolation not just geographically, “separated only by a courtesy bay” (9), but more significantly in the way the two societies contrast. Along with East and West Egg, Fitzgerald creates another symbol

Tom Buchanan is a strong, powerful, and forceful picture of a man who cares only about himself. He first meets Gatsby in the second half of the book because Gatsby is trying to steal daisy from him. Although Tom is a powerful rich man he is also a coward. He told George “The yellow car that I was driving this afternoon wasn't mine”(Fitzgerald, 140). There were many more ways for tom to give out the information, from turning it to the police or for waiting for george to ask him. Even though Tom offers George false information, eventually leading him to Gatsby's home, he is still less culpable than others. Tom's actions were unwarranted and could have been avoided. This is because his wife was the person who tempted Gatsby first.

Like East Egg and West Egg, they are both modern and uprising communities of New York. East Egg is where Daisy and Tom live. A place where people that are well educated, have a high status stay. Their origins have also come from the lavish and rich inheritance of American society. This is what is known as ‘Old Money’ people, the kind that defiance the poor. West Egg, is where Nick caraway and Gatsby lives. They are also wealthy people, but with a different background. Jay Gatsby is uneducated, but a rising newcomer in the fireball of wealth. As a comparison to the East Eggers, the west side lacks the polish standards of choice. Although Gatsby is kind hearted in the inside, he will always be an outsider to the high class. Because it wasn’t meant to be, it was a miracle from the roots of where he is from. One of the many themes from this book is presented in the movie from the angles of East Egg and West

Without any though, he takes the blame for the death of Tom's mistress, Myrtle. Gatsby doesn't make a lot of verbally expressed observations; he speaks with his actions and his thoughts.

The Great Gatsby is one of the finest examples of post WWI American literature, recognised worldwide. Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, the novel portrays the extraordinary love life of a millionaire; Jay Gatsby. Gatsby and his friend and neighbour, Nick Carraway, live in fictional West Egg on Long Island. During the summer, Carraway frequently visits Daisy and Tom Buchanan from East Egg and attends Gatsby's extravagant parties. As Carraway is intrigued in Gatsby's murky past, details of Gatsby's love for Daisy emerge.

In the story of The Great Gatsby it takes place in a wealthy town called the “West Egg” In the summer and the year to be set at 1922. The story’s main concerns revolve around a mysterious millionaire named Jay Gatsby that no one seems to know where the sudden amount of wealth has come from. He has a large obsession and is chasing his once long lover Daisy Buchanan. In this story it explore the age of Jazz as seen by the large parties told about , idealism and social acceptance leaving the story to follow the time of the roaring twenties and the life of the long set fourth of the American dream. The author F. Scott Fitzgerald puts the narration job on the hands of the protagonist (Nick Carraway). Nick Carraway who was raised in the Midwest he was raised in a wealthy family from which they made their money from there grandfather’s hardware