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The Great Gatsby 

1/30/2014

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The Great Gatsby 

The Great Gatsby Movie Analysis Costumes

Nick Carraway:
-Elegant
-Hats 
-Vests
-Bows instead of ties
-Suits y camisas

Daisy:
-Jewelry, expensive and a lot
     -Necklaces, earnings, bracelets 
-Big dresses
-Short hair
-Fan
-Smoking
-Heels

Tom:
-Polo cloths
-Wealthy—> well dressed 

Gatsby:
-Ring
-Bow
-Suits y camisa
-Sunglasses—> round
-Always well dressed
-All colored shirts
-Indian cotton
-Linen
-Even in his house he dresses elegant
-Soldier suit: doesn't let you know if you are rich or poor, it neutralizes what Gatsby really was so Daisy didn't know if eh had money or not

Mytrle:
-Classic dress, not as fancy as the ones form high class woman

High Class Women:
-Well dressed
-A lot of jewelry
-They combine a lot of cloths
-Short hair
-Dresses: long, glitter, 
-Always wear something on their head, hair
-Beach: bathing suits were complete and wear head band in their heads
-Heavy makeup
-1920
-Hat or something on the hair/ head
-Gloves
-Sunglasses are round
-They wear hats every time they are going  out

High Class Men:
-Straps
-Bathing suits —> complete 
-Pañuelo
-Striped suits


Low Class Men:
Servants:
-Ties
-Suits y camisas
-Elegant shoes

Workers:
-Dirty white shirts
-Baggy pants (nothing fancy)

-Daisy is materialistic

GREEN LIGHT: magic of the green light has vanished
Now he has Daisy so the green light has no more value

Daisy: american dream, how far we go and loose just to get that happiness or materialism 

Ostentatious —> Gatsby for Daisy showing off of wealth 

The valley of Ashes

Tom made fun of Gatsby because of the Pink suit—> lots of money no class, to dress

West and East Egg and Valley of Ashes —> 

Cathartic—> purge negative emotions (get them out)

Daisy —> shallow American Dream

America —> from poor to rich

Money has value because we have given it value

No intrinsic value

Money is a veichle to get food or these things

Before finishing the book I decided to watch the movie in order to understand the story better. As I watched the movie for a second time after finishing the book I notice many things which have helped me understand more the message and symbols of the book. Once again the ending has almost brought me to tears It is amazing how people with so much money, Like Daisy and Tom, can just pay and run away from their problems. Gatsby was innocent and he had to suffer the consequences. 

While I watch the movie I annotated on the costumes used in The Great Gastby, I focused on the main characters. The high and wealthy class lived on West and East Egg. Men wore suits, mainly bows and hats and women wore long dresses and excessive jewelry. If we compare the way Tom and Gatsby dressed with clean, suits, ties or bows and hats vs. what Mr. Wilson wore, dirty shirts and baggy pants, we can clearly see who belongs to the high class. The cloths each character wore represented their social class. The more fancy your cloths the more money you had. 

While Myrtle dressed with simple and cheap dresses, Daisy and Jordan wore expensive fancy dresses with tons of jewelry to make them stand out. During a casual day at her house Daisy used long and beautiful dresses which today people will only were to elegant parties. She always had some type of jewelry, the amount depended where she went. 

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