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3 Modern Day Retellings

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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THE GREAT-GREAT GATSBY

  • The great gatsby is about
  • Nick Carraway arrives into New York looking for the American Dream. Nick moves in next rich Jay Gatsby and across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her husband, Tom. Nick becomes drawn in the world of the wealthy and as he witnesses their acts. Creates a story of love and also tragedy
  • The great is about teenage girl that gets caught up in the hamptons social drama.ends up getting involved in a tragedy that shakes the whole community

DORIAN- THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY

  • About the stuff he saw in London and New York it interprets self indulgence
  • The picture of Dorian grey is about Dorian observing the sensitive artist basil hall ward. In the Victorian era

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  • Solsbury hills is about a women and England at her estate and is caught between two men
  • Withering heights is an intense love story mostly about revenge.

THE GREAT/THE GREAT GATSBY

  • The great is by Sara benincasa the great gatsby by f Scott Fitzgerald
  • Similarities- it stays on Long Island. Daisy is also very beautiful and is aware of it
  • Differences are- they move to the hamptons and gatsby is now a girl along with nick carraway
  • Is a novel retelling

DORIAN/THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY

  • Differences- It's a lot less creepy version of the picture of Dorian grey
  • Dorian "self moves" himself
  • He tries to not look obsessed.
  • Similarities- Dorian is still Dorian grey
  • Is a novel retelling

SOLSBURY HILL/WOTHERING HEIGHTS

  • Differences- it takes a lessened dark spin on it.
  • Is less heart breaking than the original
  • Similarities- she's pulled between two different men and sets up escape I'm londom
  • Is a novel retelling.