The Great Gatsby, Compare and Contrast

Watch the opening scene of The Great Gatsby (1974).

Answer the following questions:

1. How is the film similar to and different from the novel?

2. How do the characters in the film compare to your vision from the novel?

3. How does the following quotation relate to The Great Gatsby? "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."

   F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up" (1936)