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.

Work Cited

"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)

Work Cited

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.

Work Cited

"Definition of Selfish". June 2, 2010