Nick tells the story from the point of view of being admitted to an asylum where he is admitted for pathological alcoholism. The novel, however, is based on Nick returning home in the summer in a perfectly controlled and balanced state. This distortion causes many of the novel's events to be severely disillusioned as Nick is the voice of the novel and therefore that of Baz Luhrman. The greatest example of this disillusionment may be the way Gatsby dies in the film compared to the novel. In the novel, Wilson comes to his own conclusion about who could have killed Gatsby, while in the film this conclusion is severely distorted by making Tom a villager. "Tom Buchanan becomes a supervillain at the end of the film, painting a murderous image in Wilson's head and convincing him to do the bad deed. Turning Tom into an obvious villain is convenient for the plot, but turning him from an unlikable guy into a villain ruthless seems lazy and too mean behavior for the character" (Cinema