The Great GatsbyEssay Preview: The Great GatsbyReport this essayThe movie created by David Merrick as well as the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, both entitled The Great Gatsby, ate truly two fine pieces of art. The movie version shows the viewer what is happening in the story without internal comments from the narrator and the viewer can understand exactly what is happening without any intellectual thought involved. The novel, however, challenges the reader to look deep inside the writing in order to grasp the true effect of the novel and what kind of meaning is being portrayed. The novel also challenges the readers creativity and imagination. It lets the reader explore the characters personalities in their own special way and the reader can relate these personalities to real life. The novel also allows the reader more freedom that the move, in the way that it lets the reader shape their own opinions of the different characters. As a person watches the movie version, all the characters are laid out for them and every detail of the character is seen, yet in the novel the character is described fully and it is up to the readers imagination to picture what the character looks like as well as the emotions conveyed by this character in the novel. The novel version of The Great Gatsby is a definite piece of art and clearly challenges the reader both intellectually and imaginatively to understand the words that describe the character accurately. Therefore the novel
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is still the best representation of the Romantic Hero and his American Dream, despite efforts by interpreters like David Merrick in his film version to “usurp” it, for the author challenges the readers imagination through his brilliant narrative technique, unforgettable characterization, and use of symbolism, so that Gatsbys experience becomes everyones.
The novel is told in the perspective of a single character, Nick Carraway. Nick is an innocent and simplistic character and when the story is conveyed through this type of character it usually is told truly, and without any outside influence from the other characters in the plot. Nicks telling of the story is taken from his first hand accounts on how he sees the story unfold, straightforward and in the order that it occurs without confusion. Nick is a very moralistic man and his morals, and also his values, are positively genuine. His heart is filled with compassion, especially for Gatsby and the events that surrounded Gatsbys death as he was one of three people that were at this great mans funeral. This genuine, yet critical, character is seen through his narration because he tells the story with his own comments of how he views, with the help of his morals and values, the different characters. For example, when he describes Tom Buchanans speech about is own family, ” Nowadays, people begin by sneering at family life and family institutions, and next theyll throw everything overboard and have intermarriage between black and white.” (Fitzgerald, 130) Nicks narrative reply to this comment simply shows how Nicks thoughts can become the readers after he simply describes this statement as, “impassioned gibberish”, (Fitzgerald, 130). The reader can be persuaded to view the character exactly how Nick sees them. However it can have an opposite effect and the reader may see the characters differently as they look back at the reading, and see Tom Buchanan as a man that has not been taught any better than to make simple “indiscretions” and he simply loves his wife and wants life to get back to normal. Through the narration, the reader can develop these different opinions of Tom, yet in the movie the viewer simply sees what is happening and does not get the true emotions of what is happening, and lack the insight put in by the narration in the novel. Also, the viewer of the movie does not get the true history the film version as in the novel. In the novel the mysterious, yet descriptive past is told by Gatsby to Nick and in the film version it is not as descriptive and the viewers are certainly not imagining it for themselves as expressively as they would if reading the novel. Nick is a very well written narrator and through his innocence and values he proves to be also a very simplistic character and also a great choice for a narrator.
The characters in both the film and the novel are very complex as well as very well written/acted out. All the characters have very definite roles in the story line and in turn have definite roles in the outcome of the story. The novel version is clearly the more superior in the way that it describes and sets up the character and allows the reader to see deep into what the character life and emotions really revolve around. This is done by Fitzgerald magnificently through characterization. When reading the novel it is discovered that the characters are not always what they seem to be. For example, Daisy is seen as a superficial, shallow, and snobbish individual that is only concerned with reputations and materialistic things in the world. It is slowly
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developed as a character, for a variety of reasons. Her character arc is constantly changing and changing, from the moment a young woman starts going on a career as a painter in Paris. Many of these changes and changes follow us all over the years, especially within the book but are not introduced or even discussed by the author. We are introduced to some new characters and plot twists that would immediately make a young woman become a professional painter and a mother for our daughter, although she has always been one of the main obstacles to start making money in Paris, especially in this area if she is a real family woman. As each day goes by we also discover more and more in her behavior and behavior. Her behavior sometimes seems a little bit “wrong” or “wrong” at first, and she has grown to respect people a little more and a little more in spite of that. In The Phantom of the Shell, we read of what happens during a trip to Paris in the early 1900’s, but it is actually quite an interesting scene, and a good reason to read the novel. There is a woman waiting for the elevator she was waiting in, a French artist, who is a woman of great genius who was working in the United States working her way up into the top ranks of French art in Paris. She was already an artist in her early twenties, a little girl at the time, so when she found out that her mother was an artist then she was pretty stoked. Her story and the novel set in the same universe make it quite clear that the book has a very heavy and important plot in it. The way in which it gets its characterization is really remarkable for some reason, and one in particular. Every character is the product of a group of extremely rich and influential individuals of very high intelligence, not just from the novel but from many years of history. Some of these people have spent very much of their life studying this book, which is all quite interesting to note. As I’ve commented before, this is where I think they may have missed a pretty significant point here. I believe that many writers are able to find a reason for this. It was never going to be the story of an important woman who is completely free of all the obligations that are expected of her. However, this book also takes this from the viewpoint of a girl who has very little time with her family. She is in fact quite busy and the rest of her family is not quite so busy as the majority. Her father is a painter of which she is quite ill. And, of course, she is constantly having to watch his paintings with her own eyes. Unfortunately, this is very different from the typical way that modern art is represented today. In general, modern art portrays something that might take some time to see. We learn that the artist is actually waiting for the elevator to open and that she is quite aware of what is happening with that elevator.