Brief Summary Of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summary of The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is narrated in the first-person by Nick Carraway, an educated man who studied at Yale, moves from Minnesota to New York ,summer of 1922, and rents a small house next to Jay Gatsby’s gigantic mansion on West Egg, a wealthy district of Long Island. Jay and Nick become close friends and Nick invites Gatsby to his second cousin’s home where he meets Daisy, and her husband, Tom. Moreover, Gatsby has known this whole time that Daisy lives in the house across the sound with the green light, which he looks at every night. When Jay and Daisy reunite, Daisy is dumbfounded, because in 1917 Jay knew Daisy, and now Daisy must

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary agent, Harold Ober, attempted to sell the rights to John Wheeler, the editor of Liberty Magazine, but he turned down the offer because “it is too ripe for us. Running only one serial as we do, we could not publish this story with as many mistresses and as much adultery as there is in it” (Karolides). After the copyright was sold to Charles Scribner’s Sons The Great Gatsby continued to be challenged across the United States. This book has shown up on many high school and college reading lists, and many parents do not want their children reading it. However, these challenges receive little publication, because they are not reported to the American Library Association. The Great Gatsby has been challenged by The Baptist College in Charleston, NC (1987) for “language and sexual references” (“Banned Books”). The language in the book is the occasional “damn,” “hell,” or “son-of-a-bitch.” There is only one sexual part of the book, and this is when Gatsby “took her [Daisy],” This is controversial because he had no right to touch a married woman. In the same year The Great Gatsby was also challenged by the Bay County School