6th response

Jaehak

11-1

09-12-2008

 

The Great Gatsby

 

Response #6, pp 113 – 180

Response type#3: Connections to other “text”

 

When I have finished last third of the book, The Great Gatsby, the book’s story reminded me of a Korean TV drama which was called love war. This drama handled the topic “Illicit love” based on the real story. So, every time, the drama shows one of the examples of the illicit love and then end of the story, they required the TV viewers participate on the survey whether people should divorce or not in the example situations.

 

The Great Gatsby and Love war do not have completely the same story plot, but the basic of element of the story is totally the same as I realized it easily. Both story handled illicit love. For instance, in the book, Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy depict a love triangle. At first, Gatsby and Daisy fell in love in college period. But their relationship broke naturally as Gatsby should left for military, and then Daisy disappeared before Gatsby arrived from the war. Several years later, Gatsby found out where Daisy lives, and moved to there. In order to meet Daisy, Gatsby made luxury parties every weekend to invite Daisy. One day, Daisy attended Gatsby’s party, and then both remembered each other. Moreover, both of them started to fall in love again as they met more and more time, although Daisy married Tom. Later, Tome sensed out the relationship between Daisy and Gatsby. It caused Tom to invest on that, and then he captured their relationship. As everyone knows, this is normal plot of illicit love on every region.

 

After Tom captured Gatsby and Daisy’ relationship, the book and love war what I watched began to have different plot. The first difference is reaction of captured people. In “The great Gatsby”, when Gatsby and Daisy were captured by Tom, Gatsby and Daisy were so confident that they loved each other even though their love was illicit. Moreover, Gatsby kept mentioning that Daisy hasn’t loved Tom and Daisy have loved me. In addition, Daisy was also saying that she hasn’t loved Tom so far. As I watched love war in my young period, I was not able to understand the reaction of Daisy and Gatsby. In the drama, as the illicit love was captured, they was embarrassed, and felt guilty so that both fell on their knees in front of the capturer who was the husband of illicit woman, and then kept saying that they did wrong, please forgave us. They were not able to mention their feeling, and they put more effect not to capture by capturer. Next difference is ending of the illicit love. In the book, when Daisy drove with Gatsby, she crashed a woman who is named Myrtle. However, Gatsby pretended that he crashed Myrtle instated of Daisy. Later on, Myrtle’s husband realized that Gatsby killed Myrtle so that he shot Gatsby as well as suicide himself. On the other hand, in the drama, husband and illicit women visited a court in order to know which person did wrong, and whether or not they are able to divorce.

 

By reading The Great Gatsby, it remained me not only of love war what I watched but also of my young life. I imagined my young period because as the drama was made for over 19 years old people, my parents prevented me not to watch it. As long as I didn’t know it, I tried to watch it, and some not allowed scene appeared, my parents and I were so quiet.