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1.) How did the film capture the Jazz Age -The roaring twenties of America in 1920s?
Scott Fitzgerald can be said tohave captured the rollicking, tumultuous decade known as the Roaring Twenties, from its wild parties, dancing and illegal drinking to its post-war prosperity and its new freedoms for women.Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby was the quintessence of this period of his work, and evoked the romanticism and surface allure of his “Jazz Age” years that began with the end of World War I, the advent of woman's suffrage, and Prohibition, and collapsed with the Great Crash of 1929 years awash in bathtub gin .The character of millionaire Jay Gatsbyrepresents the extremes of 1920s wealth and decadence. Gatsby character represents “new money;” he's a seemingly overnight success with no known ties to family wealth. It is heavily inferred that Gatsbyearned his fortune, at least in part, through bootlegging.
2.) How did the film help in understanding the character of the novel?
Characterization is the way an author describes and develops characters. ... Scott Fitzgerald usescharacterization in TheGreat Gatsby to make his characters come alive for his readers. Through the eyes of narrator Nick Carraway, the reader learns that Tom Buchanan is a powerful bull of a man.Though Gatsby has always wanted to be rich, his main motivation in acquiring his fortune was his love for Daisy Buchanan, whom he met as a young military officer in Louisville before leaving to fight in World War I in 1917.I don't even mean to say that Gatsby is a bad character he is wellwritten, interesting, and even sympathetic. He's just not a romantic hero. He's a Great man but not agood man. He's not in love with Daisy, he's in love with the idea of her, the idea of money, and the distant green glow of his own idealized past.
3.) How did the film help in understanding the symbolic signification of "The valley of Ashes" "The eyes of Dr.T J Eckleberg" and The Green light" ?
It represents the moral and social decay that results from the uninhibited pursuit of wealth, as the rich indulge themselves with regard for nothing but their own pleasure. The valley of ashes also symbolizes the plight of the poor, like George Wilson, who live among the dirty ashes and lose their vitality as a result.The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are a pair of fading, bespectacled eyes painted on an old advertising billboard over the valley of ashes.In conclusion, Fitzgerald'sgreat use of symbolismshows that events ofGatsby's life. The green light represents his hopes and dreams of being with Daisy again. Thesymbol of time representsGatsby's hopes of returning to the past, when he was with Daisy. However, this is again not possible due to her marriage.
4.) How did the film capture the theme of raciam and sexism ?
In the novel The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is writing about his experiences falling into the hands of filthy wealth, a colorful, dazzlingly loud lifestyle of his neighbor Jay Gatsby and his incredible parties. He soon finds himself caught up in a love story from the past of his cousin Daisy Buchanans and his new neighbor’s affairs, even more so, becomes attached to the hip with Gatsby, devoted to him.
5.)Nick Carraway :as the narrator.
Nick Carraway
The novel's narrator,Nick is a young man from Minnesota who, after being educated at Yale and fighting in World War I, goes to New York City to learn the bond business. Honest, tolerant, and inclined to reserve judgment, Nick often serves as a confidant for those with troubling secrets.Nick serves as the novels' source of moral guidance. At the start of the novel, his gestures and judgements mark him as acharacter of moralintegrity; he states that he is
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