Surprisingly, that’s a very tough question. The obvious, ‘ mediocre-middle-school-child-doing The-Great-Gatsby-in-class-answer’ is romance- most of the novel centres upon a doomed and tragic love story, and how passion manifests itself. read more
Joel Edgerton is very well cast as Daisy's husband, the bullying Tom Buchanan, while Tobey Maguire must create a character from the voice of the elusive, self-effacing Nick Carraway, the novel's narrator, which is probably the trickiest aspect of dramatising The Great Gatsby, harder even than bringing the magnetic, paradoxical, chimerical Jay Gatsby to life. read more