The Great Gatsby film

The Great Gatsby film is very good. Watching the film makes the book more easy to read and understand. In the book, to me, Daisy doesn't seem as crazy as she does in the movie. The movie gives the characters more life and understanding than it does in the book. The movie does not follow the book and is not as descriptive as the book tells it though. In the book Mrytle is a very fat woman, and in the movie she is attractive and is somewhat thin.

There are other characters that change from the book and the movie. Tom B. is more aggressive in the book than he is portrayed in the movie. And of course Daisy is more crazy and annoying in the movie, and she also is not as disobeying in the movie as she is in the book, in other words she is not have that big of an attitude toward Tom. But there are also characters that are portrayed perfectly. Such as Nick Carraway, he is shy and stuck in the middle of everything just like in the book. Jay Gatsby is secretive and in love with Daisy just as much as he is in the book.

The movie sets the scenes very well in the movie like the scene when Gatsby and Daisy meet for the first time, in five years. You could see the awkwardness and also see the love in there eyes. The only see that was different from the book is when Nick, Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy and Tom go to the hotel in town and Gatsby and Tom start to fight. In the movie Daisy ran away and Gatsby went after her, and Tom went after Gatsby and they went through the wedding, happening downstairs. I think that watching the movie while reading the book makes it more easy to understand.

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"The Great Gatsby" Shmoop. 6 June 2010 http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/gendertheme.html

The Green Light

"The first symbol in this book is the mysterious green light. In our first acquaintance with the light, we see Gatsby reaching out for it, almost, in a way, worshipping it. We find out later that this green light is at the end of Daisy's dock, and is a symbol for Gatsby's dream and the hope for the future. Green is the color of promise, hope, and renewal - so it is fitting that Gatsby's dream of a future with Daisy be represented physically in the novel by this green light. Later, in the final chapter of this novel, Fitzgerald compares.

Gatsby's green light to the "green breast of the new world" (115), comparing Gatsby's dream of rediscovering Daisy to the explorer's discovery of America and the promise of a new continent. However, Gatsby's dream is tarnished by his material possessions, much like America is now with our obsession with wealth. The means corrupt the end, and Gatsby's dream dies because of Daisy, Gatsby, and Tom's carelessness and superficiality, as does Gatsby for the same reasons."

"I didn't call to him, for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone - he stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness." (16)

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Frederick C. Millett."Analysis the Great Gatsby"MSU. 3 June 2010 https://www.msu.edu/~millettf/gatsby.html

Selfish People

Selfishness is a human characteristic that everyone has no matter how much you try. The definition of selfish is "someone who is devoted to caring about oneself or concerned primarily with one's benefits or welfare." Many people are selfish with not even realizing it, and others do it mainly for their own benefit. Selfishness can be a bad thing or a good thing depending on the circumstances. It can be good if you are benefiting yourself greatly and not pushing someone out of the way for it. Then there is the other way if you hurt or greatly put someone down for your benefit.

In The Great Gatsby there are a couple of selfish people, they are Mrytle, Jay Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy. Mrytle hates her husband, and the way to destroy him was to cheat on him and it was with Tom. She was not only looking to ruin her husband, but to move up in the social class. Mrytle chose Tom, because he is rich and he would buy her nice things and anything she wanted, like the puppy and the new clothes. Tom is selfish, because he is not thinking about Daisy's feelings when he cheats on her he is only thinking of his own benefits.

Jay Gatsby is selfish when he becomes a bootlegger. He is selling alcohol illegally so that he can become rich, to steal Daisy away from Tom. Jay will also throw people under the bus to get what he wants. Lastly there is Daisy, she knows about her husbands affair so she thinks the best way to get back at him is to cheat on him. And when Gatsby comes around she doesn't care about his feelings, only to get back at her husband. I believe this because she does not want to leave Tom just break his heart.

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"Definition of Selfish". June 2, 2010

Dan Cody

In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby one day he see's this yacht owned by this guy named Dan Cody. Dan Cody is a wealthy copper mogul. So Gatsby rows out to tell Dan that there is a storm coming. Dan took Gatsby aboard and was very thankful that he made Gatsby his personal assistant. Gatsby traveled with him everywhere and loved being wealthy.

Dan drank a lot and so one of Gatsby's jobs was to look after him when he was drunk. It showed Gatsby what drinking could do to people and Gatsby decided not to become a drinker himself. When Dan died he left a lot of money to Gatsby but Cody's mistress kept Gatsby from claiming this money. so from then on Gatsby dedicated himself to becoming a wealthy and successful person even if it meant doing illegal things.

Dan Cody was like Gatsby's mentor, Jay really looked up to him. Before Jay met Dan Cody he was poor and his legal name was James Gatz. James had always had a passion for money, but his parents couldn't support him, because they were unsuccessful farm people. Dan Cody changed Gatsby's life, he changed his name and got him in the business at a young age. I think that Jay got all of his bootlegging skills from Dan. The only think that Gatsby has in his memory is an old picture of him that hangs in his house.

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" Major Characters".The Great Gatsby list of Characters. 30 May 2010 http://www.fcps.edu/westspringfieldhs/academic/english/1project/99gg/99gg2/charlis2.htm

Gangsters and Mafia

The 1920s were famous for prohibition and gangsters. "Gangsters were known because they bootlegged alcohol, meaning that they sold alcohol illegally." When the eighteenth amendment was passed in 1917, American people started to acted differently. Some people would kill for their beer. The difference between gangsters and bootleggers is that gangsters were more violent towards others. When they tried to take over bars, and the owner would not allow it they would most likely kill them. The men who became gangsters were mainly apart of the lower class, such as Jay Gatsby.

The most famous gangster in the 1920s was Al Capone. Al Capone controlled many places in the city, he controlled speakeasies, poker houses, and nightclubs. Al Capone's gang was also involved in the Valentines Day Massacre. The massacre involved his gang and George "Bugs" Moran's gang. Bugs was a bootlegger as well and the massacre took place in his main liquor headquarters. Six of the seven men were killed. Although Capone was very violent he is said to be generous and closely believed in loyalty and honor. He was one of the original gangsters in the roaring 1920s, the prohibition era.

In The Great Gatsby the gangster is probably Jay Gatsby. He is very secretive and mainly keeps to himself. Jay was very poor in his early years and all of a sudden became very rich. Gatsby was willing to do anything to be rich for his true love, Daisy. So the fastest way to get to the top was to become a bootlegger and move up to a gangster. Gatsby has committed crimes and gives out alcohol at all of his parties and more. He is very secretive and does not like to talk to anyone about his business, and many people believe that he has killed a man maybe even more. We also find out that he will threaten anyone so that he gets what he wants. That is the difference between Gatsby and Capone, Capone believes in honor and Gatsby believes in Daisy.

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The Men of Gatsby

"The Great Gatsby gives us a glimpse into the gender roles of post-WWI America. Gender roles are in part decided by societal roles, as Tom’s upper class masculinity (strength, intimidation, virility) is contrasted with Wilson’s lower class version (hard working nature, naiveté). Unfaithfulness is a trait of both women and men, as we see in the text’s prevalent adultery. Women take physical abuse at the hands of Tom’s overly-macho persona, which seems a right of his gender at the time. His abuse is a form of the control that he exercises over both his mistress and his wife.

Even Gatsby, who treats Daisy as if she is the most precious jewel in the world, does not ultimately understand women. He treats his love as a prize, rather than a person. Daisy and Jordan, interestingly, seem to do as they please – but they still define themselves by their ability to attract men." Men have a primary role in the home, and that is to make the money and be happy with their lives. Tom is one of the wealthiest men in the novel, he likes to polo and make sure is life is the most extravagant one there is even if that means trying to verbally lower his opponents such as Gastby. Tom sees another woman, Mrytle Wilson, and although he is in a secretive relationship with her he still loves Daisy, and would never leave her.

Jay Gatsby is the other wealthy man in the novel, he makes his money by being a bootlegger. Gatsby is trying to sweep Daisy off her feet and take her away from Tom, but Tom won't let that happen. The last main man is Nick Carraway. He is very different from the other two, he is not wealthy, he is not trying to steal woman, and he does not judge others. Nick knows that Tom is seeing Mrytle, and he knows that Gastby is a bootlegger but he does not judge them. Theses are the Great men of Gatsby.

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"The Great Gatsby " Shmoop. 25 May 2010 http://www.shmoop.com/great-gatsby/gender-theme.html

Jealousy

Jealousy is an emotion that is created by the lack of security. Jealousy is also known as the green-eyed monster and you can see it in people. Many people become jealous of others because they have something better than them. Everybody has a sense of jealousy in The Great Gatsby there are all types of jealousy. There is jealousy of people having more money than others and the jealousy of people being married to others.

One of the first jealousies seen in the novel is the jealousy between Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanans. Jay is jealous of Tom because he is married to Daisy, the woman that he has loved for a very long time. The jealousy it is also reverse Tom is jealous of Gatsby. Tom is jealous because Gatsby is more rich and knows more famous people than Tom. Tom tries to put Gatsby down by saying he makes his money by bootlegging and he says that the people they met aren't really that famous.

The jealousy is also show show between Myrtle and Daisy. Mrytle is very jealous of Daisy because she is married to Tom and she is the reason they can not be together. She is also jealous of her because she has nice clothes and gets anything she wants. The last jealousy in this book is the jealousy of Gatsby by Klipspringer. Klipspringer is jealous of Gatsby's huge house and large amount of money. He takes advantage of Gatsby but still does not posses the things that Gatsby has.