Great Gatsby: Movie Vs Book

The Great Gatsby

I: All throughout grade school and even high school, my teachers, parents, and even friends told me not to take the easy way out when it comes to books. Always read the book before the movie. I usually took the easy way out, watched the movie, and then skim the book. After doing this project I see what everyone was talking about. The book is much better than the movie, it gives you more of a sense of what is going on, a greater sense of when the story takes place, and it gives the characters more definition.

II: The book and movie give very specific details to show where and when the story took place. The book and movie takes us back to the 1920's after the civil war. There were two odd formations of land off the coast of New York, East egg and West egg, West egg being the less fashionable, Nick lived there. "It was a matter of chance that I would have rented a house in the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York- and where they are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land." (Fitzgerald, 4)

The parties at Gatsby's mansion were lush and lavish, most of the guests hadn't been invited, rather they knew someone, who knew someone, who knew Gatsby. The men would wear their best suits, and the women would wear their nicest dresses, and their hair in French bobs.

In my opinion the book had many advantages over the movie, the book could describe to us how the character was actually feeling, or what they were thinking. The author could also get his feelings toward the characters, and the setting, by simply writing it and telling you how it was supposed