Fitzgerald's “The Great Gatsby” redrawn: between colorful minimalist globalization and 1920's nostalgia

Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (1925) has long earned its status of literary classic. With such success has also come reinterpretations and adaptations. The present dissertation analyzes how two of those adaptations, Bachelier & Melchior-Durand’s “Gatsby le Magnifique” (2013) and Morton & Fordham’s “The Great Gatsby: the Graphic Novel” (2020), reinterpret the different aspects of Fitzgerald’s classic. The first chapter of this dissertation explores the reception of the novel throughout the last hundred years. The second section introduces both adaptations. The third chapter focuses on the theories and studies of graphic adaptations of literary classics and how both the 2013 and the 2020 graphic novels fit into this category. The fourth chapter analyzes how the different symbols in the novel, in particular colors and characters, are reinterpreted in the studied graphic novels. The fifth chapter explores how ethnic minorities discussed in the original are reinterpreted in the two adaptations. Finally, the last chapter focuses on how the representation of gender roles have been addressed in the two 21st century graphic novels.