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Jay Gatsby

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I think that the book has many more descriptions of the characters than the film. For instance, Tom Buchanan was a ruthless and negative person in the book while in the film, he was portrayed as a complete villain.

For example, in the end of the movie, he was the one who told Wilson that it was Gatsby who killed Myrtle.

Nick Carraway is the narrator of the film and we see him being an omniscient narrator, because he doesn’t know what everyone is feeling except himself.

He is also an unreliable narrator because there is sometimes where he isn’t present, although when he narrates, he only tells us what he experienced and felt.

The portrayal of the roaring twenties was successful, by the way they dress, act and how their wealthy mindset was. It also shows us how the poor rises to a better social and financial status in society.

I think the actors did a great job by giving us an image of each character and how they are portrayed in the book.

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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him. "

This quote from Nick states the core of Gatsby’s character, but also heralds the main themes of the story, which are idealism and loss among other themes.

The Great Gatsby was written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. Fitzgerald chose the main genres of the story to be modernism and realism.