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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Setting The Great Gatsby takes place in a fictional suburb of New York, right outside of the New York City. Being a rather short novel, the story takes place over the boiling summer of 1922. Something that I have realized through out the book was that many, but not all, of the important events happened in the evening or late at night, such as the death of Myrtle and all of the lavish parties thrown my Gatsby. Plot In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves to West Egg, located in Long Island, New York, to take a break from his passion of writing and learn about the bond business, of which is absolutely popular in the city, not far from the Eggs. Across the bay in the more wealthy East Egg, lives his cousin …show more content…

Daisy being rather naïve has no idea about the affair. He also is introduced to Daisy’s close friend, Jordan Baker, a professional golfer and soon lover of Nick. Soon after, he gets an invitation to one of Gatsby’s parties and finds Jordan there as well. He finally meets Gatsby and starts talking to him regularly and forming a friendship. Gatsby starts taking Nick out to lunch and hanging out, getting close to him just to ask him if he can invite Daisy over for tea so he can see her again. Tea at Nick’s led to Daisy and Gatsby to start talking again, and also to start an affair behind Tom’s back. Tom immediately started to get suspicious of his wife’s personal agenda with the result of her constantly being gone and eventually confronts Gatsby. Jealousy gets the best of Tom and Gatsby, resulting in a horrific car crash, killing Myrtle. When Myrtle’s husband, Wilson, (oblivious to the fact that his wife is having an affair with Tom) thinks the killer is Gatsby, only because the bystanders saw his stunning Yellow car speed away from the scene, he seeks revenge and shoots Gatsby on his patio by the pool he hasn’t used all summer long, following his own Suicide. Nick then moves away, breaking up with Jordan, to seek a calmer lifestyle than the fast paced life of a

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His neighbor is Gatsby. Nick goes to have lunch with his cousin Daisy and she tells him of Tom’s affairs with Myrtle. Nick eventually gets invited to one of Gatsby’s parties, which he only throws in hopes of Daisy attending one, and Gatsby asks Nick to arrange a meeting between the two. Nick invites her to his house because Gatsby believed he would not meet her if she knew he was still in love with him. They then fall back in love with each other.

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He reunited with his cousin along with becoming friends with his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick is brought into Gatsby’s plan to fix his relationship with the love of his life Daisy Buchanan, who is Nick’s cousin and his former lover. Gatsby and Daisy begin to have an affair while Daisy’s husband Tom is having an affair with a young woman named Myrtle. On Daisy 's drive home one night she hits and kills Myrtle not knowing that her husband, Tom, was having an affair

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He eventually finds Gatsby and he invites Nick to go out the next day. It turns out that he wants Nick to invite Jordan to tea so they can discuss Daisy and get her to come to one of Gatsby’s parties. At Gatsby’s next party, Nick gets Daisy to attend. However, Tom is there too. Daisy does not enjoy the party, which defeats the reason for his party.

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He plans for Nick to go out to lunch with Jordan Baker, a close friend of Daisy’s, and have him convince Daisy to travel to the West Egg for tea. When Nick wonders why Gatsby did not ask Jordan to arrange the tea date, she explains that “he wants [Daisy] to see [Nick’s] house… and [Gatsby’s] house is right next door” (Fitzgerald 79). Gatsby hopes that if Nick hosts the meeting, Daisy will see his mansion and be charmed by his extravagant lifestyle. He is self-absorbed as he only acts friendly to Nick and uses him to his advantage in an attempt to reunite and build a romantic relationship with Daisy. Additionally, Gatsby is hesitant to believe the past cannot be made up and he has

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After learning that Tom is Daisy’s husband, Gatsby disappears. After lunch, Nick meets Jordan Baker for tea, where she recounts the history that Gatsby and Daisy share. She also revealed that Gatsby wishes for Nick to invite Daisy over for tea so that he can get reacquainted with her. After calling up Daisy to invite her over, and

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