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This 4 page paper discusses the book and film versions of The Great Gatsby. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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uses the book, the film and criticism to discuss Fitzgeralds work. Discussion The book is remarkable for its subtlety; Fitzgerald writes a very incisive portrait of these characters without describing
their thinking directly. Readers are left to infer the characters motivations and reactions, which lends to the extraordinary depth of the book. Tom and Gatsby: Although Nick is arguably
more important in the book than Tom, he and Gatsby seem to be on the same side, as it were. But the contrast between Tom and Gatsby is significant. Although
as the title character, and a charismatic dreamer, Gatsby is attractive to readers, though his past is questionable. He seems noble because he so single-mindedly pursues his dream, which is
a quality much admired by Americans. He is also a "self-made man," though his money may have come from illegal operations. Tom on the other hand has inherited his money
and looks down on Gatsby for being a sort of tradesman. Its the way a person with billions of dollars might regard someone with a quarter-million. Where Gatsby is a
dreamer, Tom is hard-headed; but even more importantly, Tom is a racist, which Gatsby is not. In his fantastically difficult article about the book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if
not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bases his argument on the fact that Gatsby is almost always described in terms of color. His pink
suit, his brightly colored silk shirts, and so on; these indicate to Schreier that Fitzgerald is using some sort of code to tell readers that Gatsby is non-white. That would
help to explain Toms antipathy to him long before they clash over Daisy (Schreier). (Schreier also writes things like: "Gatsbys catastrophe, in Nicks disappointed appropriation of it, exposes in a
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