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Book Report The Great Gatsby

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LITERARY ELEMENTS: Setting: Great Gatsby is set in New York City and on Long Island, in two areas known as "West Egg" and "East Egg" Long Island's beach communities were home to the rich and fabulous of the New York City area. “East Egg” is home to the older monied families, the highest ranked in society, the “West Egg” is home to the self made rich, the people who worked for their money and despite their riches, they are still classed below those from “East Egg” in society. Plot: The Great Gatsby is a story told by Nick Carraway. Nick just moved from out west to the New York area. He travels to East Egg to visit his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband, Tom. There he meets Jordan Baker. When Nick returns home that evening, he notices his neighbor, …show more content…

When the former lovers meet, their reunion is slightly nervous, but shortly, the two are once again comfortable with each other, leaving Nick to feel an outsider. The three move the party from Nick's house to Gatsby's, where he shows Daisy his house to show her just how far out of poverty he has traveled. Daisy and Tom attend one of Gatsby's parties. Tom spends his time chasing women, while Daisy and Gatsby sneak over to Nick's house to talk while Nick keeps guard. After the Buchanans leave, Gatsby tells Nick his goal, to recapture the past. As the summer goes on, Gatsby and Daisy's affair begins to grow and they see each other regularly. On one of the hottest days of the summer, Gatsby and Nick go to East Egg to have lunch with the Buchanans and Jordan Baker. Daisy suggests they take a trip to the city. No longer hiding her love for Gatsby, Daisy pays him special attention and Tom picks up on what's going on. As they prepare to leave for the city, Tom gets a bottle of whiskey. Tom, Nick, and Jordan drive in Gatsby's car, while Gatsby and Daisy drive Tom's. Tom stops Gatsby's car at Wilson's gas station, where he sees that Wilson is not well. Wilson announces his plans to take Myrtle out West,

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Nick is Gatsby’s neighbor and Daisy’s cousin, and cautiously assists their relationship. Nick and Gatsby live in the West Egg area of Long Island, while Daisy lives across the way in East Egg. Fitzgerald uses these neighborhoods to symbolize the differences between the newly and old rich. In the novel, Nick and Gatsby are both newly parevenus individuals who do not come from a rich family. Carraway is earning his way to wealth in the banking industry, while Gatsby received his wealth predominantly from bootlegging.

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In the beginning of chapter 7, NIck notices Gatsby has no parties going on and learns that Gatsby doesn't need the parties to attract Daisy. On the hottest of the summer Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Nick, Jordan go to the buchanan’s house for lunch. As the afternoon goes on Tom realises that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair. Tom sets out to win her back. Daisy asks if they can all go to NYC for the rest of the day.

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Gatsby wants everything to be perfect for his and Daisy’s reunion; he gets Nick’s lawn cut, buys her a great deal of flowers, and makes sure that every room is spotless. Daisy soon realizes that she could receive anything from Gatsby, but she still had to worry about Tom. Only in love for the money, Daisy begins to push Tom away to attain her goal. At one of Gatsby’s parties, she gives Tom permission to go have fun with other women: ‘“And if you want to take down any addresses here’s my little gold pencil’” (105). Daisy still loves Tom, but he is LIABILITY for her plan

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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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Nick and Gatsby are outside the Buchanan’s’ house. Nick looks through a window and sees Daisy and Tom having a conversation at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken and two bottles of ale between them. "They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale—and yet they weren’t unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together." Nick is wondering what they could be talking about.

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We immediately learn that Nick is related to Daisy Buchanan who is currently married to Tom. Nick was invited to tag along with Tom to meet his mistress, Myrtle whose husband runs a garage. Tom and Nick go

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In chapter 5, Nick discusses having Daisy over with Gatsby. The following day Nick invites Daisy and specifies not to bring Tom with her. Gatsby is exceedingly nervous and almost leaves Nicks house, when Nick stops him. Once Daisy shows up everything is very awkward at first but then Nick leaves claiming he has to attend to some work of his, leaving Daisy and Gatsby to catch up with one another.

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One day when Nick, Jordan, Tom, Gatsby and her were bored at home, she suggested that they go to New York. They ended up going and getting a hotel suite to have a small party. There, Tom and Gatsby confronted each other, much to Daisy’s discomfort. “They talk about the possibility of her [Daisy] leaving her brutish beau Tom” (Baker) and Daisy burst into tears and claimed she loved them both, at least at one point in her life. She ran out of the room and got back in the car, Gatsby joining her.

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Gatsby goes to the extremes of changing his name and moving from the west to the north of West Egg, New York to illegally inherit his wealth through criminal activity, in attempt to win Daisy’s love and affection once again. While living in West Egg, Gatsby creates gaudy, well known parties to try to attract Daisy’s attention from East Egg. He does not discontinue his pursuit of capturing Daisy’s love, leading to a summer relationship consisting of lies and adultery. He is obsessed with his past and trying to recreate the happiest years of his life while being in a relationship with Daisy, as Nick

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The night of Gatsby’s party ”Tom was evidently perturbed at Daisy’s running around alone,” or so he thought she was alone.(Fitzgerald) This shows that Daisy was hiding the fact that she was with Gatsby. While at Nick’s for tea with Gatsby, Daisy says she is “awfully glad to see him,” even though she has been married the past five years.(Fitzgerald) This shows that all this time while being married she has Daisy has kept on loving Gatsby. On the way to the Plaza Hotel Daisy decided to split up,“You take Nick and Jordan.

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Nick becomes submerged into the lifestyle shared by Tom and Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Jay Gatsby. The lifestyle of wealthy living. Although Nick is still a resident of West Egg, he becomes “particularly aware of the beauty” when surrounded by the enchantment of East Egg. As if being there opens him up to a whole new society and light. One where happiness comes from just being in East Egg.

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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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At the beginning of the chapter, Nick notices that Gatsby has ceased having his iconic parties, and soon learns that it is because Gatsby no longer needs them to attract Daisy 's attention. On the hottest day of the summer, Tom, Daisy, Gatsby, Jordan and Nick all get together at the Buchanan house for lunch. Throughout the course of the afternoon, Tom’s suspicions are solidified when he realises that Daisy and Gatsby are having an affair, and from then on he sets out to win her back. Upon Daisy’s request, they decide to go to New York for the day, and Nick rides with Jordan and Tom in Gatsby’s car, while Gatsby and Daisy ride together in Tom’s car. While stopping for gas, Tom and Nick learn that Mr. Wilson is aware of his wife’s infidelity

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• Nick goes with Tom to hang out with his mistress (Myrtle Wilson) and some other people; Nick gets drunk for the second time in his life. • Myrtle talks of Daisy and Tom hits her so hard in the face that he breaks her nose. • Nick gets invited to one of Gatsby’s parties. • Nick goes to his first Gatsby party; sees Jordan, and meets Gatsby for the

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Their blatant disregard for the lives of others turned Nick away from that lifestyle. Furthermore, he realizes that the “American Dream” of hope and success has simply become a substitute for materialism. Nick breaks up with Jordan Baker as he realizes that he can no longer live in the East. Because Nick is so appalled by the actions of those around him, he moves back to the Midwest to live a simpler life (Fitzgerald 176-180). Nick’s former acquaintance, Tom Buchanan, also moves away at the end of the book after his experiences.

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