Santiago Chavez

Homework: The Great Gatsby

Summary

The Great Gatsby follows the footsteps of Nick Carraway, a man who aspires to be a writer, as it leaves the central region of the U.S. and arrives in New York in the spring of 1922, a time of moral decay and pulsating jazz kings of bootlegging. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick ends up being a neighbor of Jay Gatsby, a millionaire mysterious continually gives parties. Across the bay live their cousin Daisy, and her philandering husband and aristocrat, Tom Buchanan. Thus Nick enters the captivating world of the super rich with their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness to that, both inside and outside the world he inhabits, write a story of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and big tragedies, and raises a mirror to our own time and current struggles.

The most important scene takes place in New York. Tom and Gatsby fight over who can be with Daisy. It is revealed that Gatsby is a bootlegger (this story takes place during the Prohibition era in the U.S.) and Daisy can not leave her husband. While the group leads to Long Island, Tom's mistress, Myrtle, is hit and killed by Gatsby's car, in which Gatsby and Daisy ride. Gatsby tells Daisy she was driving but he will take the blame. Meanwhile, Tom sentence Gatsby, George Wilson telling where to find the man who killed his wife, Myrtle. George Wilson shoots him to Gatsby before committing suicide.

Characters

Nick Carraway: grew up in a respectable family of Chicago and went to Yale, likes literature and is considered one of those "limited" specialists known as "good men" and works in finance in New York City. It is connected with wealthy and important, as their cousin Daisy and Tom, an acquaintance from college, but in reality he is not, in any way, one of them. Unlike the people around you, Nick Carraway is not drowning in money. Being away from these social circles, can have a better view of what happens to them. It also has a sharp eye and sometimes critical, and not afraid to use it.

Daysi Buchanan: The beautiful, mysterious, flirtatious, intriguing, delightful, exciting, sexy and famous voice "full of money" that has Daisy is one of the central images of the movie. People like Nick, Jordan and Gatsby, say the magic of this extraordinary instrument. Daisy's voice is full, not only of money but of promise. Something about her that tells the listener that there are beautiful attractions on the horizon. Daisy's voice is irresistibly seductive, and all other characters are drawn to her for that voice.

Tom Buchanan: is Daisy's husband, an extremely wealthy man, a brute and an athlete. It is selfish and does what he has to do to get what he wants. Above all, it seeks to take control of your life and control over others. Abusive. . It is neither attentive nor responsive to his wife, and this contrasts with Gatsby.

Personal opinion

The film is well done. The scenery is excellent, the characters are very good actors. The costumes and photography are the best. I do not like romance plot director. I have not read the book but all say the book is better. Production is what I liked most of the movie