Jordan Curren
Mrs. Lebo
5-16-10
English 11-2

Loss- In the book and the movie has to suffer the loss of Daisy for 5 years. I think that in the first video and the book Gatsby shows more emotion towards the loss of Daisy than in the 2nd one. He seems like he cares more and he is more obsessed with getting her back into his life. In the 2nd movie the loss of Myrtle hits Wilson really hard and they show in the 2nd movie him going and talking to Tom and how emotional he got when Myrtle got hit. Wilson seems like he gets more angry in the 2nd movie. The loss of Gatsby isn't as effective because nobody really seems to care that he died besides Nick and Gatsby's father. It bothers Nick because he feels like he is the only one that has really lost anything because of the death. "About five o'clock our procession of three cars reached the cemetary and stopped in a thick drizzle beside the gate" shows that there wasn't very many people at his funeral.

Mutuablity- In the movies it is easy to tell that Nick gets along with everyone. He doesn't really say much about what Gatsby and Daisy are doing and what he saw happen between Myrtle and Tom. Nick is the person that knows everything that is going on. There is no mutuability between Daisy, Tom, and Gatsby because they can't be in the same room together without them getting in a argument and because of the mixed emotions Daisy has between the 2 of them. "You were his closest friend, so I know you'll want to come to his funeral this afternoon" shows how close of friends Gatsby and Nick were.

Time- In the first movie they show time the best, they go back in time and they show when Daisy and Gatsby first met. Time is one of the major themes in the movie because Nick always tells Gatsby that he can't repeat the past and that it isn't going to work out. Gatsby is so wrapped up in the past and how things used to be that he can't get his head on straight and move on. If he could have forgot about the past he wouldn't have been killed. "You can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" shows how Gatsby thought he could go back and repeat time from 5 years ago and Nick told him that it just wasn't going to happen.

American Dream- Everyone wants to experience the American Dream and be rich and wealthy, and have a nice house. Gatsby got to experience the American Dream because he had a huge house, and he was very wealthy. He threw parties all the time and people just came as they wanted to. In the movies they show how wealthy he is and I think that in the second one it resembles more to the book than the first one because i pictured the pool right next to the house and thats how it was in the second one. In the first movie the pool is away from the house. "I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited, they went there" shows how people just showed up at Gatsbys parties whenever they wanted to.

Possiblities- There was a lot of possibilities for Gatsby and what could have happened between him and Daisy. But because of his death, nothing can ever happen. Him and Daisy could have ended up getting back together and could have fallen in love. She might have ended up divorcing Tom and marrying Gatsby. Nick could have possibly stayed with Jordan Baker if everything would have been alright between all of them but there was so much drama and a lot of changes after Gatsby died. Wilson wouldn't have killed Gatsby if someone would have told him that Daisy was the one driving the car.

Self made man- Gatsby was the only one that was a self made man. When he was young he wasn't very weathly and he always dreamed of being rich. He made all the money by himself by distributing illegal alchohal. When he left for the war Daisy married Tom while he was trying to make money so that Daisy would marry him. After that, he dedicated himself to becoming very rich so that he could get Daisy back. He bought a house right across the street from her.