The Great Gatsby and the movie

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in1925. The book is about the life in the 1920’s, which was the era where everybody became rich and had wonderful times living the wildlife. With its extraordinary diction and mysterious symbols a, Fitzgerald writes about Jay Gatsby, who wants to achieve his dream, the American Dream. There have been several movies about this novel, and The Great Gatsby released in 1974 is certainly one of the successful movies. The book and the movie are very similar; however, they have some differences, too. The novel and the movie are similar and yet so different in the development of some of the important characters such as Tom, Nick and especially Jay Gatsby, and in the deletion and addition of some the scenes in the movie which creates the loss of some of Fitzgerald’s language from the book to the conversion to the movie.
In the book, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald does an excellent job in the character development of the main characters. However, the movie does not do the same for some of the characters. For instance, in the book Tom is described as a very muscular man. In contrast to the movie, he appears as a tall, skinny person. It does not affect Tom’s image of being a

Another place that a difference is seen between the movie and the book is the deletion and addition of some of the scenes. One of the significant scenes that has been deleted in the movie is the scene where it is autumn night, Daisy and Gatsby are outside at night, and they kiss. This has some of the best imagery in the book because it creates an image of cool autumn, “when leaves were falling”, and “sidewalk was white with moonlight” (117). When the movie deletes this scene, it loses a lot of Fitzgerald’s language and diction. Next, the novel creates a very vivid and powerful imagery of Myrtle on the ground with words such as “mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust” and “her left breast was swinging loose” (145). All that the movie shows from the scene is Myrtle’s dead body covered by a blanket. The movie loses a lot of insights and emotion from conversion of the book because the book shows how violent the accident was but the movie does not show any of that, which suggest that the accident was not violent at all but that is not true. One scene that was added in the movie is the part where Gatsby gives a ring to Daisy but Daisy gives it back to Gatsby to wear it because she is still with Tom. The ring symbolizes and gives false hopes to the audience that everything will turn out fine in the end and Daisy and Gatsby will end up be