The Similarities And Differences Between The Great Gatsby And The 1920's

There are many similarities and differences between the novel and the movie. Both capture the feeling of the new generation of the rich in the 1920’s. The novel breaks everything down into a lot more detail than the movie. The movie just gives the vast over watch of the novel with some differences. You can see the change in setting, character traits, and the difference in the parties. To begin with, Nick’s Character portrayed in the book compared to the movie has some similarities and differences. In the novel, Nick comes off has a innocent, nice, easy going guy who doesn’t say much. In the movie, Nick’s traits are sort of the same. He has an extreme interest in Gatsby’s life on how mysterious he is. In the novel, Nick says “Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn.”(pg.6 Chapter 4). This means that Gatsby was everything that Nick hated, but yet he saw something interesting about him. He feels like this in both the movie and the novel.
When Nick receives his invitation in the movie, he say’s that he was the only one formally invited. Now in the novel anyhow, Nick says “ I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.”(pg.45 Chapter 3) Also, the way Nick met Mr. Gatsby was different from the novel. In the movie, Nick was looking for Gatsby all night. Apparently no one had ever seen him there. Nick ends up running into Jay has a waiter. In the novel, Nick meets Gatsby while looking at some books while Jay makes a comment. Nick doesn’t find out till later in the Chapter that it was