gatsby

monouver18 · 04-01-2009, 12:53 AM

i have to write this report/essay on gatsby about hy it wouldn't make a good one-act play? i need 3 but i can't think of three???

Wilde woman · 04-05-2009, 04:22 PM

Actually, I found one analysis that briefly analyzed Gatsby's plot structure as a three-act play: http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/liter...-analysis.html

But I think one of the most obvious reasons it wouldn't make a good play is that it has a narrator that is also a character - Nick Carraway. We see everything through his eyes and it's unclear whether or not he's a biased or reliable narrator. Most plays don't have an explicit narrator, and that's what allows the audience to make moral judgments about the characters for themselves; when you focalize a work through a biased narrator, it skews the depiction of what's actually happening.

04-01-2009, 12:53 AM	#1
monouver18 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1	gatsby i have to write this report/essay on gatsby about hy it wouldn't make a good one-act play? i need 3 but i can't think of three???

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04-05-2009, 04:22 PM	#2
Wilde woman Annoying alliterator Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Berkeley, CA Posts: 310	Actually, I found one analysis that briefly analyzed Gatsby's plot structure as a three-act play: http://www.shmoop.com/analysis/liter...-analysis.html But I think one of the most obvious reasons it wouldn't make a good play is that it has a narrator that is also a character - Nick Carraway. We see everything through his eyes and it's unclear whether or not he's a biased or reliable narrator. Most plays don't have an explicit narrator, and that's what allows the audience to make moral judgments about the characters for themselves; when you focalize a work through a biased narrator, it skews the depiction of what's actually happening.