What do Iron Man 3 and The Great Gatsby have in common? No, this isn't one of those kindergarten jokes--this is for real. Even though their plotlines and the cinematography couldn't be farther apart, these two films share their psychoanalytic framing device. In Iron Man 3, the psychoanalytic session/framing device is the reveal. It appears in the epilogue.
In The Great Gatsby, we meet Nick Carraway in a sanitarium, before the action starts. Carroway narrates the novel and speaks in Fitzgerald's voice. F. Scott Fitzgerald does not include a sanitarium scene in his original Gatsby, although sanitariums are prominent in other stories, and surely figure into the sad tale of his wife, Zelda, who herself went in and out of mental hospitals.
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