THE GREAT GATSBY

The Great Gatsby - By F. Scott Fitzgerald

This blog is part of our thinking activity. This activity given by Dr. Dilip Barad. This blog based on the movie screening of  'The Great Gatsby' novel. You know more about this blog click this link   https://blog.dilipbarad.com/2021/06/great-gatsby.html

 The Great Gatsby 

The Great Gatsby, third Novel by F.Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Set in Jazz Age New York, the novel tells the tragic story of Jay Gatsby, a self- made millionaire, and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy young woman whom he loved in his youth. Unsuccessful upon publication, the book is now considered a classic of American fiction and has often been called the Great American novel. 

The reason why this novel is so popular is because it has an excellent book cover - Celestial Eyes, which was designed by Francis cugat's  and has been continuously used for almost a century.  In the cover of  The Great Gatsby,  Cugat uses a lot of dark blue color as the background, which can jump into people's eyes. Cugat  named this painting Celestial Eyes is in order to reflect his idea of this rapidly  changing world. The founder of Smashwords, Mark Coker once said in an interview: 

       

         " Our brains are wired to process images faster than words. when we see an image, it makes us feel something. A great cover can help the reader instantly recognize that this  book is for them." 

The Great Gatsby (2013 film)

The Great Gatsby is a 2013 historical romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 novel. The film was directed by Baz Luhrmann. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his neighbor Nick Carraway, who recounts his encounter with Gatsby at the height of the Roaring Twenties on Long Island.

Movie has used modern narration techniques but has certain  loopholes in it compared to the novel. Watching this movie gives the best scenario of 20th century America and its culture.  Now less US discuss some questions with reference to the screening of film 

How did the film capture the Jazz Age- the Roaring Twenties of the American in 1920s? 

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920 and 1930 in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity  in the United States. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Fitzgerald explores the major developments of the Roaring Twenties, including the birth of jazz, the women's suffrage movement, economic prosperity, and the rapid growth of Manhattan as a cosmopolitan city.

Fitzgerald has explored Jazz Age greatly in the novel. Baz Luhrman's  movie has very faithfully captured  Jazz Age / Music. From the beginning of the movie we do find the loud music which lightly indicates the madness of  the Jazz in that period.