The Great Gatsby The movie created by Jack Clayton as well as the novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, both are titled The Great Gatsby, are two great pieces of art. The movie version shows the viewer what is happening in the story without the internal comments from the narrator, Nick Carraway, and the viewer can understand exactly what is happening in the story without having to analyze anything. The novel, however, challenges the reader …showed first 75 words of 697 total…

…showed last 75 words of 697 total…version of The Great Gatsby. While reading the novel, the reader can really understand what’s happening and it feels like you’re right there in the book. The movie, unlike the novel, doesn’t let the reader use their imagination. It seems that the movie presents the images for the audience. For these reasons and several others it is obvious that the novel is a more worthy piece of art compared to the movie.