Discussion on the-great-gatsby-comparison

[Ms. Mauricio]

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[Chris]

In the novel, Nick was a narrator. However, because it was from his
view, it was possible for him to withhold some information. In the
movie, on the other hand, while he could still be considered a
narrator, we are able to see a larger perspective rather than just
what Nick wants to tell us. An example could be Nick not describing a
certain detail (thus we don't know about it) whereas in the movie, it
is possible to see the detail. In the novel, we are able to see more
of Nick's judgment. We can do this based on the words he uses to
describe certain events. In the movie, it felt as if Nick was less of
a narrator and more a character because in the movie, he wouldn't have
a narration after every person spoke. Though that being said, some
information in the movie was not as clear as it was in the novel
because in the novel, it was Nick's narration that had aided us.
Personally, I don't think I would have understood the movie as much if
I were to have not read the novel beforehand.

The Great Gatsby showed me: novel > movie.

[vinn...@hotmail.com]

ANDREA VIVEIROS :)
I'm sure that everyone can agree that all the characters were
different from what we imagined them to be while reading the book.
The actress who played Daisy Buchanan was nothing to what I invisioned
Daisy to be. The movie does well to show that Daisy did not want
Gatsby as he was poor , as she quoted " rich girls don't marry poor
boys." However I found her role to be very awkward. Especially her
encounters with Jay Gatsby and even Nick, she played her role a tad
awkward compared to the book , where many moments would be awkward as
she did love another man infront of her husband but I found her to be
different then the Daisy in the novel. Though she did appear to be
very foolish and unatural in the movie. I invisioned her to be more
proper and mysterious.

[Andrew Viet]

I thought that the movie really depicted the book well; it was almost
entirely line by line. One character that I depicted differently based
on the book than the movie was George Wilson. My original
interpretation of George was of a hard-working, strong man, one who
works for his garage doing actual work and only clueless about
Myrtle's affairs. The movie showed him as kind of pathetic, who's
always crying and begging. Although the book never specified George's
emotions while he was talking, I pictured his asking of Tom's cars as
more frustrated and disdained rather than desperate, as I saw he was
in the movie. Like when he said he was sick when Tom was stopping for
gas on the way to the plaza, I thought he was actually sick, tired,
and pissed when going to the car. In the movie, he was whiny and just
standing there, like he's making an excuse. I'm not saying it's a bad
interpretation, it's just different than my original depiction of him.

[dana...@hotmail.com]

Hopefully I'm doing this right again, and this is where I'm supposed
to post.

I'm going to discuss Daisy Buchanan since she was also the topic of my
essay and I have a lot to say about her. She is probably the most
drastically changed character in the movie in comparison to the novel
itself. Throughout the novel, or at least until I came to the
realization that Daisy was a very selfish, materialistic person, she
seemed very self reliant. The movie, however, made Mrs. Buchanan seem
very dependant, fake, and overly sensitive, as opposed to Fitzgerald's
depiction of her. For example, while in the novel she seemed to be
above Tom's affair, in Clayton's movie she seemed very juvenile,
emotional and insecure, always crying and forever changing her mind.
Also, physically, I expected Daisy to be a lot more beautiful, or at
least radiant. Instead, her appearance in the movie was very scrawny
if that's even a word I can use to describe her. Moreover, I thought
that Jordan was supposed to be her younger friend, and someone who
looked up to her, as Fitzgerald put it himself. On the contrary, I
found that Jordan was the stronger character, and definitely the more
assertive and mature of the two.
Therefore, I can conclude with the idea that Daisy's portrayal in Jack
Clayton's film left a lot to be desired as opposed to the character in
the original novel.

[ADAMTAVONE!]

Overall, the movie did not do a great job of depicting the characters
from the book. One of these characters was Daisy Buchanan. The way
she was portrayed in the movie was not the way I envisioned her in the
book. In the book, although she says she is cynical, her voice seemed
more firm and self assured. In the movie however, she came out as an
insecure and awkward character. She was constantly crying and always
seemed to have an over exaggerated expression about her. Another
thing completely different from the book was that she seemed sexually
attracted to her cousin, Nick. Whenever they met in the movie, she
always asked him for a kiss. Daisy’s character was poorly executed
and the director’s interpretation of her was also poorly analyzed.

[Andre]

Overall, I think that the movie presented the novel moderately well.
The movie used a lot of the lines from the novel, making them seem
close to identical. As similar as the two were, I thought that the
characters were portrayed differently than a lot of us expected them
to be. The movie gave us different images of the characters than we
had when reading the novel. In the novel, Fitzgerald showed Daisy
Buchanan to be materialistic. She also seemed to care about herself
and how she feels. She seemed to be a stronger character with a
stronger personality. In the movie by Jack Clayton, Daisy Buchanan
seemed like she had a different personality. It changed my image of
her. In the movie, Daisy seemed very insecure, always crying, and
saying she is going to cry. She seemed to have a weaker personality.
Overall, the movie was okay, maybe a little boring at some parts.
Daisy was one of the characters that were shown differently in the
movie as compared to the book. The book was better, in my opinion,
because it let us visualize and picture what is happening and let us
use our imagination more. After I watched the movie, everything seemed
different.

[Lexis]

In the book Nick seemed to have more personailty then in the movie.He
seemed really lifeless because in the book you knew what his thoughts
and feelings were and in the movie he was kind of just there.He didnt
give enough thought of what was going on.In the novel he played a
bigger role of what was going on and gave us details that we needed to
know,in the movie he just tagged along. I also didnt picture him to
look that way in the movie I was thinking he was a bit younger and I
thought he would be a stronger character.He seemed oblivious to what
was going on sometimes and a little bit lost.The novel was a lot
better than the movie.

[Nicole Burello]

From reading the novel and watching the movie, I have come to the
conclusion that both sources are extremely dissimilar and each depict
Nick Carraway differently. In the book, he is the narrator and informs
us of how people feel and important situations that occur. He has good
values and a good perspective on life. He describes: “.. A sense of
the fundamental decencies is parcelled out equally at
birth.” (Fitzgerald 7) which is what his father always used to say. He
comes from a good family and has a good education. In the novel he is
assertive, opinionated, “tells it like it is”, and has tons of
interaction with Gatsby, Tom and Daisy. However, the movie portrays
Nick as a more passive character. I didn’t feel he was a main
character, like he was in the book. Also, in the movie, I didn’t feel
that he had as much interaction with the other characters, such as
Gatsby and Tom. He took more of a back seat in the storyline of the
movie, and didn’t have an impact on the viewer as he did in the book.
In conclusion, I felt that the book and the novel both had very
different takes on the character of Nick Carraway.

- Nicole :)

[Liv]

The movie The Great Gatsby was, in my opinion, actually entertaining
and exciting. It was refreshing to see a director follow the script
of a book so closely in making the movie. The character of Daisy
Buchanan was an important role in both novel and film, but she was
portrayed differently in the movie than the "Gold Digger Daisy" we
were accustomed to in the novel.

The first difference I noticed in Daisy's character when viewing the
movie was the firm resolve and opposition she had towards Tom from the
very beginning. For instance, in the book when Tom left dinner with
her, Jordan and Nick to get the phone call from Myrtle Daisy's only
comment after the incident was "'It couldn't be helped!' cried Daisy
with tense gaiety" (Fitzgerald 20). When this same scene was
portrayed in the movie, however, Daisy came back rather unsettled and
was very clear in conveying a huge amount of attitude toward Tom for
the rest of the evening. Furthermore, when they were at Gatsby's party
together, she was straightforward with the fact that she had no desire
to be around her husband and insisted he go socialize with others
while she went to dance with "someone else". In the book, though, she
was a bit more discreet with her emotions and did not have as much
playful authoritative and threatening power over Tom. This was evident
in giving him pen and paper to go "chop:)" some broadway dancers in
the party scene in the film.

There were also more argument scenes between Gatsby and Daisy in the
movie, and it did not display their relationship as being all love,
all the time, as was done in the book. For example, there was one
scene in his house when Gatsby was grueling Daisy for marrying Tom and
she rebuttled by asserting that she was tired of waiting and that he
was poor. In the book, we never saw any fights between them, and
Daisy certainly never said anything to Gatsby that was lacking
adoration.

Finally, Daisy seemed a bit more like a gold digger right from the
beginning of the movie, though it wasn't always so clear in the book.
This was obvious in the pride she took in her clothing and house, and
especially the absolute astonishment and glee that was shown when she
realized the money that Gatsby had acquired. She made the clear
distinction-- verbally-- that now she could be with him because he was
wealthier than before. In the book, readers finally accepted her
greedy nature when she abandoned Gatsby in his time of need, toward
the end of the story. In the movie, she is overall more predictable
and we see her true colours much sooner.

Hope this worked!
Love,
Olivia

[marisa]

ok hopefully this works!
The movie The Great Gatsby was very interesting to watch to say the
least. After watching it I can now say that there were more
differences then similarties to the book then I thought there would
be. If I had to focus on one character in particular that was the most
far off than I imagined it would have to be Disy Buchanan. when I read
the book I invisioned daisy to be a very classy and reserved lady that
stuck by her husbands side. in the movie, the actress that plays Daisy
makes the character look very awkward and some what wild. she is also
portrayed to be very selfish, fake and very materialiastic. in my
opinion this was not as evident in the book. despite the differences
there were many parts that were exactly how the book stated them. one
of those similariteis is when daisy says that she does not date poor
boys in referance to jay gatsby. her encounters with gatsby seemed to
be very similar to the way they were described in the book especially
when she first hear gatsby's name. over all both in the movie and in
the book Daisy is one foolish gold digger who does not deserve
gatsby.!!

On Apr 23, 1:35 pm, "Ms. Mauricio" <anna.mauri...@ycdsb.ca> wrote:

[Sharlene]

In the novel and the movie, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan is
portrayed as a woman that is in love with wealth and is somewhat a
confusing, very sensitive character. In both the movie and the novel,
she seems very sensitive about everything around her, however more so
in the movie, she plays a very exaggerated character. Her emotions are
overly exaggerated, from being happy and loving especially towards her
cousin, Nick which makes it awkward. After reading the book, I would
have not thought that Daisy would cry so much. In the novel, Daisy was
sensitive about Tom having an affair, by argueing with Tom after his
phone call from Myrtle. However, in the movie, it depicted Daisy to
not have much care about Tom and his affair and would rather be around
others, than her own husband. The movie showed that Daisy was able to
handle Tom's anger and not care when Tom got angry for disappearing at
Gatsby's party, by singing and dancing with a happy attitude. The
movie did depict Daisy as a gold digger just as the book portaryed
her, by Daisy herself saying that rich girls don't marry poor boys and
falling in love with Gatsby's wealth. In conclusion, Daisy's emotions
and reactions are portrayed differently in the movie than what was
expected form the book.

[Christina]

Fitzgerald’s novel and Clayton’s movie of The Great Gatsby revealed
some differences between the two. Their unique opinions and attitude
of the plot, characters, and symbolism caused such differences. Nick
Carraway of The Great Gatsby was portrayed differently in the movie
from the novel. Although some characteristics of Nick were identical
or similar between the movie and the novel, major differences was
identified by me and the students during the movie. Nick Carraway in
both the movie and the novel lived in the West Egg neighbouring Jay
Gatsby’s mansion. He was invited to parties hosted by Gatsby,
introduced to Jordan Baker, and he helped Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan’s
reunification. However, one major distinction between the two was that
Nick was not the narrator of the story in the movie. This created a
main difference between the movie and the novel because unlike the
novel where Nick was limited in his power to see and understand other
character’s mind and actions, the movie was omniscient in every
affairs and incidents that occurred without Nick’s physical presence.
Thus, Nick played a larger role and presence in the novel where he
informed the readers of his opinions and major information through his
narration unlike the movie where he was exposed to us as just one of
the characters who happens to be acquainted with Jay Gatsby. In
addition, Nick Carraway was different from the novel and the movie in
terms of his relationship with Jordan Baker. The relationship between
Nick and Jordan in the novel wasn’t as deep and strong; it was evident
that they were both unsure of each other as their spouse or soul mate.
Conversely, the relationship between Nick and Jordan was displayed
with strong love connection. In conclusion, Fitzgerald and Clayton
viewed the plot of The Great Gatsby in different point of view which
created some major differences between the two versions.

On Apr 23, 1:35 pm, "Ms. Mauricio" <anna.mauri...@ycdsb.ca> wrote:

[Cezil Jondonero]

Sorry this is late miss! I've been really pre-occupied.

From seeing the two versions of The Great Gatsby I can see the
different characteristics that we're portrayed in the movie but were
not obvious by reading the book. I think that the movie director
really touched upon the attitude of Daisy and the other characters as
well. I think that Daisy in the book was seen was a fragile women but
in the movie she is seen to be this women that whines and complains
just way too much. The way that Daisy was portrayed in the movie was
totally different from the way that I saw her in the book. The movie
really makes her attitude a lot more shallow. The Daisy that was
portrayed in the book was more of a subtle girl that privately dealt
with her problems with her husband Tom. In the movie it was shown that
she was more with Gatsby then she was with Tom. I think the way that
Jack Clayton portrayed Daisy perfectly because the way that we read
her in the book did not match her lifestyle. I think in the movie her
attitude really reflected the way she lived her life with Tom and with
Gatsby.

[dakota...]

i have chosen Nick Carraway to compare from the novel to the movie. In
the book to me it made me think he would be a broad and smart man, and
in the movie he is very thin and seems cluless of whats happening. I
believe that Nick was a pretty good prediction from Jack Claytons view
and he described him well. Nick was also portraid as he didnt seem to
have interest in Jordan, when in the book it seemed as if he did.
Overall Nick was well portraid by Jack Clayton.
and everyone was sweating in the movie.........made all the actors
even crepier than they already were

[FJ]

The novel "The Great Gatsby", written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the
movie directed by Jack Clayton, portrayed the different
characteristics of a character. Thinking that the movie was going to
be better than the book, there was a slight change in mind. In the
book, you knew every single excruciating detail of what Nick was
talking about. You knew his thoughts and pictured everything as it
would be told. Nick seemed more exciting in the book rather than he
did in the movie because with every aspect given about him, you
imagine him to be that wise, intelligent man. But in the movie he
didn't care about anything and was living that boring life. Reading
the first chapter made me visualize him sitting on the porch thinking
way back when his father had a said "Whenever you feel like
criticizing anyone" he told me, "just remember that all people in this
world haven't had the advantages that you've had." I thought it was
appropriate because he seemed so relax sitting on a rocking chair
rather than riding a boat to retrieve his hat. All in all, I thought
that the book was better than the book.

On Apr 23, 1:35 pm, "Ms. Mauricio" <anna.mauri...@ycdsb.ca> wrote:

[Ms. Mauricio]

From Jose:

In general, I found that all characters were different than what I
expected. Daisy for me, was completely different. From reading the
novel I thought she was formal and quiet. The movie showed Daisy as a
flapper. I thought that Daisy was too much like Jordan (flapper) and
Jordan was too much of Daisy. I expected Jordan to be the loud one in
the movie but instead I found that Daisy was the loudest one. I also
didn’t like Daisy’s voice in the movie, it sounded too insecure. I
knew that daisy was a gold digger from reading the book but like
Olivia said, Daisy seemed more of a gold digger from the beginning of
the movie. I also found Daisy’s clothing a bit strange. From reading
the novel I expected Daisy to where more formal dresses. The movie
showed Daisy with bizarre clothes. For example, when Daisy was at
Gatsby’s party she had a silver dress with this weird silver shiny
hat. When Daisy came back from over hearing Tom’s conversion with
Myrtle I expected her to be furious but instead she was calm and acted
as if she didn’t care. A final physical characteristic that I noticed
about Daisy from the movie was that she looked to plastic. Clayton
made Daisy look like a flapper and even act like one when in the novel
it showed Daisy as a formal, quiet gold digger.

[Cass]

From reading the book and watching the movie, The Great Gatsby I have
come to realized that the book was so much more interesting and well
explained overall. The characters in the book in my perspective were
so much different from the movie. In the movie Daisy was nothing what
I had pictured. Starting at the very beginning of the movie her
character was already a selfish gold digger where as at the beginning
of the book she came off as more of a nice loving wife to Tom. I also
noticed that in the movie Daisy portrayed more exaggeration to show
her character. Also in the movie Daisy seemed not to care much about
the affair with her husband had with Myrtle Wilson; where as in the
novel she defiantly paid more attention to there affair. Daisy and
Gatsby showed more affection in the novel than they did in the movie,
they also had many arguments that were not displayed in the novel.
Overall I was very disappointed at the way every character was
portrayed because I felt they were nothing close to what I had
pictured or what the novel had displayed. The novel overall was a
great book and had amazing characters to set the mood.

-Cassandra Marchese

On Apr 23, 1:35 pm, "Ms. Mauricio" <anna.mauri...@ycdsb.ca> wrote: