Recently I have read and watched the movie and book, The Great Gatsby. At first when I found out
that I had to read this book for my AP English and Language class, I thought it
was going to be terrible, and hard to read. But when I actually got into the
book it was really good. Considering it is such an old book, I thought the
teens my age would actually really like it.
The Great Gatsby takes place in New York, where the writer
Nick moves in next door to a mysterious man, that nobody knows a lot about,
other than he throws huge parties every weekend. Gatsby is a millionaire, so he
has everything in life that someone could possibly want, except for one thing,
Nick’s cousin Daisy. Daisy and Gatsby used to be in love until Gatsby went off
to the war. Daisy married a different man, Tom Buchanan, who is also very rich.
Everything is turned upside down when Gatsby asks a favor of Nick, which is to
invite Daisy over to his house, so Gatsby can rekindle the relationship he once
had with Daisy. Through the book we see everything from love, to heartbreak, to
death, all in what I think is a relatively short book.
I thought The Great Gatsby was a great book because I loved
the love story that occurred throughout the book. I thought it was romantic how
Gatsby did all those extravagant things just to get Daisy’s attention, to try
and win her back after he lost her the first time. I like the drama they came
with the intricate love triangle. Actually it was more like a love pentagon if
you think about it. I also like how the book was written from Nicks point of
view, looking in from the outside, since Nick in the book and movie was not
rich, so he wasn’t really a part of that life style.
I loved the movie too, because of how closely it relate back
to the book, and how accurate it was according to the book. The movie had
really great actors in the movie including Leonardo DiCaprio,
Carey Mulligan,
and Joel Edgerton.
These
actors really made the movie complete. I loved all the colors that were
included in the movie, all of the party scenes were so beautiful with all the
colorful people and things in the movie. Even though that is a little thing, I
think that that is my favorite aspect of the movie, because all throughout the
movie I was thinking to myself “this movie is so colorful”! I also loved the
way that the movie mostly related the movie back to how it takes place in the
1920’s, so the cars, electronics, and way of life all resembled the way life was
in the 1920’s. However some things I questioned in the movie about how they
probably would have actually happened or had in the 1920’s, such as the amount
and difficulty of fireworks that they had in the movie, I don’t think they
would have had that intricate of fireworks in the 1920’s, also just some of the
furniture in Daisy and Gatsby’s houses, I don’t think they would have had in
the 1920’s.
Overall however both the movie and book were excellent and I
highly recommend this book to anybody, especially if you have to read an older
book for class, and want to actually enjoy the book you are reading.
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