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 be

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 bei

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