For our Story Remix project, I chose to remix F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." I decided to do a video/powerpoint presentation (with audio) that tells the story of "The Great Gatsby" if it were to take place in 2020.

1. THE GREAT GATSBY:
2020 EDITION
By Corinne Norman
Multimodal & Digital Composition
Spring 2020

2. PLOT &
CHARACTERS
***DISCLAIMER: One part of The
Great Gatsby that is not covered in
this version of the story is the
original’s symbols. For more on
symbolism in the original version of
Gatsby, check out this link.
Other Disclaimer: Yes, I’m using
photos/gifs from the movie because it’s
beautiful and I love Leonardo DiCaprio.
And for my sake, please pretend the party
clips are in a club and not a mansion.

3. Introducing Nick Carraway: The World’s Worst Third
Wheel

4. MEETTHE
BUCHANAN’S
Nick’s Cousin Daisy
Nick’s Old Yale Buddy
Tom

5. Jordan Baker (not Belfort – different
DiCaprio movie)

6. The Side Chick

7. “He smiled understandingly—much more than
understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a
quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come
across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—
the whole eternal world for an instant, and then
concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your
favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be
understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in
yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the
impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
– Nick Carraway on meeting Jay Gatsby

13. And this is why
we don’t play in
traffic, folks

15. ANALYSIS OFTHEMES
Wealth & Class, and the American Dream

16. Old Money
- Inherited family wealth
- Probably plays polo or golf or something
- Pretty cynical people if you ask me
- Considered to be the highest of social class
New Money
- No one really knows where their money came from
- Loves to throw down on Saturday nights
- Young in high-class society, has few connections
- Seen as inferior to Old Money
They look the same, right? Not the same

17. You guessed it – the American Dream
George Wilson
A man who was born poor
is born behind in the race
to success. The American
Dream was never in reach
for this poor guy.
Tom Buchanan
A man who was born into money
and is, in effect, a product of the
American Dream due to his
ancestral inheritance.
Jay Gatsby
If anyone here has gotten
close to having it all and
living the American
Dream, it’s this guy. And
even he couldn’t even
attain it.

18. Thanks for listening/watching!
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